ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious

publius ( hamitlon, jay, and madison ) loathed a demagogue …populists like daniel shays scared the wits out of them and they were determined to form a government that would be composed of men “more temperate and cool” and less inclined to radical expressions of “liberty” like the unsettling unicameral legislature of the wholly leftist pennsylvanians and that would exclude men who, in the words of john jay, “wisdom would have left in obscurity”…the necessity not “ to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious” [federalist VI ] was seriously undermined by their continued confusion of wealth with wisdom which led to a native born aristocracy…they may have loathed english aristocrats but they were born of an aristocratic culture…hamilton wanted Washington to be king, not president and he ended up being the first probably not so much for his generalship as his wealth and critics like sam adams and richard hennery lee were not shy about pointing that out…in response hamilton wrote, “but it is alleged that it ( the constitution ) might be employed in such a manner as to promote the election of some favorite class of men in exclusion of others by confining the places of election to particular districts and rendering it impracticable to the citizens at large to partake in the choice. of all the chimerical suppositions , this seems to be the most chimerical .” [federalist LX] and yet elbridge gerry…a delegate to the constitutional convention, a member of the first house of representatives, and a governor of massachucetts…clearly one of jay’s superior “collectors of political intelligence “…leant his name to a process of “rendering impracticable to the citizens at large to partake in the choice.” or, at least, ”partake” in it in a fair manner…their confusion of wealth and wisdom created the preconditions for the subverting of “the people’s will” by the forces of wealth and reaction leading to the reeking political sump we are immersed in at the moment where there are multiple millionaires in congress who are doubtlessly less than “temperate and cool” when legislation impacting that wealth arise ( single payer health insurance and the green new deal are political pipe dreams )…there have been rapacious presidents before the orange haired clown and there will be more to come…politics is rife with ways to turn a buck and there is no shortage of people eager to make theirs…congress is corrupt and it corrupts or ejects the newcomer…recent events in congress should underline this…high school civics ( indoctrination, propaganda, bright and shiny lie ) get in the way of perception...i have to ask, is the impeachment process dragging on because it is a constitutionally mandated slow and deliberate process or are the players keeping a weather eye on opinion polls because there are elections coming up and taking a stand here may jeopardize re-election and the money pipeline a seat provides? you should be able to intuit my views on this which are the framers were a deceitful bunch who were the founders and purveyors of the current stench...they were interested in securing their own positions of advantage over the herd that could be swayed by people like shays who might actually be acting in the interest of “the people”…hamilton, jay , and madison were easily as “ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious” as anyone since.