M.D. Rawlings
Classical Liberal
I'm amazed how many people that proclaim "individual rights" don't think individuals are smart enough to choose their leaders.
I'm always amazed how leftists incessantly fail to follow the self-evident line of reasoning taken for granted by classical liberals: among other things, the reason for limited government goes to the observation that human nature is essentially corrupt and therefore vulnerable to stupidity. Hence, one should want to safeguard individual prerogative against the irresponsibility and tyranny of the collectivethe latter ever-dragging down the whole.
The Constitution is a body of one check after another intended to thwart the stupidity of the mob, and individual liberty is the greatest check of them all. It tends to compel humans to embrace their better angels and swim, rather than succumb to sloth and sink.
The contradiction exists nowhere but in the minds of the stunted, black-and-white thought processes of the leftist, who cannot follow the premise-to-conclusion (allegedly black-and-white) thought processes of the conservative.
Your mistake is due to the same sort of intellectual immaturity that confounds the necessity of defending the sanctity of human life relative to a genuine and enduring liberty with a supposed heavy-handed intrusion in the lives of women on the behalf of the unborn.
So how does the Constitution currently protect us from the tyranny of the Democratic and Republican parties? Right now it is the powers of those parties that are protected by a combination of the Electoral College, along with lack of restrictions on campaign financing.
Why should there be restrictions on campaign financing and what is this tyranny regarding the two parties?
You're perfectly free to start your own party; it's just that the support of most Americans coalesces around the two parties. As I said, eliminating the Electoral College wouldn't change that anyway. That dynamic is mostly driven by other things.
Of course there are certain restrictions on campaign financing in place now, imposed by the government, and these restrictions are arbitrary. Hmm.
Precisely what arbitrary, governmentally imposed rules do you recommend to compel persons to support other political parties? Hmm.