The tactics of a Russian troll farm

Cpl (Join to see) - We are both, a government the first of a kind. Neither a classic republic nor a classic democracy. The problem here is a long as we retain a system on government by election, we retain the potential for social manipulation. Social manipulation that technology has provided much easier attack vectors for. I don’t want to get rid of the system of government through election part so that means we have to tackle the impact of technology on social manipulation.

The founders were very vocal in their view of democracies. They even codified Republic in the US Constitution, i.e. the document we swore to defend, in Article IV Section IV. The reason they didn't give voting rights to all people in the Constitution was because of the mobs' whim and folly. They let the states dictate voter rights. Some states even allowed women to vote if they held land. The reason most states only allowed land owners to vote was to prevent the lazy have-nots taking from those who had the drive and initiative. We are a Republic and I will fight tooth and nail to ensure it remains so.

Cpl (Join to see) - A constitutional republic and a representative democracy. If you read the contemporary writings of the founders you will find this to be true.

Cpl (Join to see) - To be clear, I’m being a bit pedantic. The word democracy has multiple meanings. You are using it in the sense of a direct democracy, such as an Athenian democracy. It that sense you are absolutely correct. Our founding fathers did not want that. But also under the general classifications that were common at the time; monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, our republic fell under the third. But even in contemporary writings the term democracy was used sometimes to mean a direct democracy and sometimes the less explicit classification of governments by the will of the people.