• uienia@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    That’s not it. The thing is that they refused acknowledging that partisanship would evolve. They preferred to hold on to the illusion that everybody involved in office would always be altruistic and solely work for the greater good, which was laughably naive even then (as many people pointed out to them).

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      That part is really up to the voters hence the federalist papers and the whole “masses are asses” thing…