Dear Lord, we need to revamp teaching of American history in this country.

Some of the ignorant, idiotic responses I am getting is...incredible. My 10 year old knows more about the Federalist papers than some of these adults. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/james-madison-mob-rule/568351/

"Madison had spent the year before...reading two trunkfuls of books on the history of failed democracies...was determined, in drafting the Constitution, to avoid the fate of those “ancient and modern confederacies,” which he believed had succumbed to rule by demagogues and mobs."

"Madison’s reading convinced him that direct democracies—such as the assembly in Athens, where 6,000 citizens were required for a quorum—unleashed populist passions that overcame the cool, deliberative reason prized above all by Enlightenment thinkers."

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason,” he argued in The Federalist Papers. “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”"

"Madison referred to impetuous mobs as factions, which he defined in “Federalist No. 10” as a group “united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”

MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA?

"Factions arise, he believed, when public opinion forms and spreads quickly. But they can dissolve if the public is given time and space to consider long-term interests rather than short-term gratification."

"To prevent factions from distorting public policy and threatening liberty, Madison resolved to exclude the people from a direct role in government. “A pure democracy...can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction,” Madison wrote in “Federalist No. 10.”

All @SenMikeLee was doing is repeating the same arguments that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton (YES THAT HAMILTON THAT LIBERALS DANCE AROUND ABOUT NOW) have been agreeing about since 1787.

So who is violating political norms again?