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They sell it pretty good and The Framers did, too, but it was always set up to primarily benefit only a few, imo. It's arguably been totally compromised right from the start.

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I strongly agree. However, I'm perhaps too cynical in that I tend not to view it as being compromised from the start so much as it was always intended and composed as a degenerate and crooked thing. At the same time, I can't help feeling that what the Founding Fathers envisaged with such high-mindedness, articulated with such sublime prose, and established with such high morals and benevolence, was indeed remarkable and irreproachably wholesome. But what their vision and their Constitution enshrined is not in any way, shape, form, or spirit the government that eventuated, alas.

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