So I can expect Rachel Maddow to presenting the same kind of historical information sometime soon, and cheering on AOC, Sanders and Gabbard. LOL
OK may I say this is all old news, and therein lays the problem doesn't it. For Adam Smith the libertarian neo-liberal hero was also a
rabid Progressive most keen on appropriate Regulation in economic life, progressive taxation, social goods, and income / wealth equality sharing the fruits of the land of the nation as far is feasible by Principle.
His so-called clarion cry of "the invisible hand of the market" was used twice in all his writings, and that's it. The key being "AS IF" meaning there really is no invisible hand it all depends on how the SYSTEM is constructed, and then fair and equitable markets, accessible by all people and not only the few, could operate "as if" there was this invisible hand at work ... even though there isn't!!! Those
"free markets" were in fact being designed on Principles with particular INTENT to achieve a Just Ends, and not the winner take all edict!
Good luck educating the neo-liberal cultists resident here their whole Faith is founded upon lies and manipulations. Money alone can afford high levels of Propaganda to win the day.
AS an add-on people should be mindful of two things. Most of the founding fathers and early politicians, the best among them, were first and foremost Freemasons .. and not fundamentalist Christians. The Constitution etc was primarily based on sound centuries old universal Freemason Principles - it's as clear as day. They played the long game and were pragmatic folks. But do not tell the Baptists that!
Secondly, it;s strangely hypocritical of all Americans and their politicians who once illegally engaging in War Crimes, would then demand that before handing over Iraq to her people that they must first of all write a new Democratic Constitution following the principles of the Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers and then demand have it Voted upon by all the people of age in the country.
It's odd because at no time has their been held a national Vote by the People on the US Constitution. Not once, not ever.
Furthermore not once has there been a popular Vote by the People to Amend said Constitution.
eg the American people did NOT vote to end slavery by validating the 16th Amendment. The Politicians did that, not the People en mass by a national Majority of people and a Majority of States. No one Voted to limit Presidential terms to two. An egregious imposition upon political freedom, an annulment of basic Human Rights, plus anti-democratic and prima facie Unconstitutional in and of itself.
Ah, but the poor people have been conned yet again and believe this is brilliant, so "rational and ethical and just" when it is the complete opposite of those things.
So given the American people have never not once ever been able to Vote for or against their Constitution and it's Amendments, then how on earth can they dare claim to be a Government of The People, for the People and by the People?
When almost every person in every other nation on this earth posses such rights and privileges?
The existing Constitution and it's system of Governance and Electoral matters enshrined in the Constitution are one of the key reasons why America is a shit show today.
It's not going to improve. Even if a Bernie sanders became President it will not and cannot improve nor change course. Despite a few exceptions the entire nation is both ignorant and asleep. For that is the only place where one can see the American Dream.