• Tikiporch@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    This was less important to him than making sure only wealthy, educated, white men could vote. The unwashed masses were never intended to vote on anything federal beyond House of Representatives.

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      29 days ago

      Exactly. If you’re reading this, you aren’t the person he wanted involved in running the country.

      Maybe instead of jerking off old dead white guys, we could do something now.