Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

glenn's been hammering the inadequacy of mainstream media but also thinks the founding fathers created undemocratic institutions as "safeguards" which is what we teach fourth graders so they don't get too stressed out https://t.co/dkWFkA8QAS

— Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy) April 23, 2021

I really don't want to listen to it, because there is no context in which this statement makes sense.

Is there a movement for a Constitutional amendment I'm unaware of? One to increase the number of senators populous (i.e., "urban") states have, v. "rural" states? Or to break up more states so we get more Senators in total? Or to eliminate the Senate, which was originally so "undemocratic" the Senators were appointed by state governors? (and the reality is, the Senate was meant to quell the "populism" of the "rural states.")

Except there weren't any "rural" states in 1788, because there weren't any "urban" states. Aside from the other fact, which is there are only two states in the country now with multiple large cities (Texas, California), and both of those states still have substantial rural populations.   So what “urban” states are there?  

The dichotomy Greenwald depends on here is a wholly false one; but it's also a dichotomy that dates back to the mid-19th century, when cities became important population centers, and the "country folk" were pitched against the "city folk" (Poe wrote about it, when it was new, as did Whitman.). A greater bid for unity, against such division, would actually be a lot more helpful.

he's 3/5 right, i guess.

— MORE SCOOTERS THAN EVER (@MoreScooters) April 23, 2021

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— super 🔮 astronomic (@superastronomic) April 23, 2021

The amazing thing about people saying shit like this is that the whole system collapsed only 70 years after they created it and had to be reimagined pretty fundamentally (14th and 15th amendments, not to mention stuff not incorporated into the Const). Just wacky stuff.

— Patrick Luck (@PatrickLuck) April 23, 2021

But is that what the Founding Fathers intended?

We’re about two weeks from Majorie Taylor Greene having to tell Glenn Greenwald “whoah, dude, dial it back a little.”

— AngloSaxonTraditionsHat (@Popehat) April 23, 2021

Yeah, there’s that, too.