The necessity of an educated and informed electorate has never been more urgent. [View all]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-importance-of-educated-and-informed.html

George Washington addresses the issues that we are facing with this unconstitutional, incompetent and corrupt Trump Presidency as if he were observing them himself. So it's not that the founders, when designing American democracy, writing and ratifying the Constitution, and establishing the Republic, did not forsee the possibility of a corrupt, criminal element, influenced by foreign powers and driven by money interests, gaining control of the government to serve their own narrow purposes and those of the other billionares who influence the politics. Washington saw this as a possibility.

They put plenty of safeguards in place, including making the Constitution amendable, not expecting a strict constructionist approach, but that as society and the culture changed, the Constitution could adapt to the change. The safeguards in making those changes was wisely requiring two-thirds of the members of Congress to agree, and two-thirds of the states having to ratify their agreement. The safeguard which the founders believed to be the best defense against "ill-concerted and incongruous projects of factions," a description which fits Trumpism perfectly, was "the power and right of the people to establish government."

So Washington believed that an informed electorate, with the power and right of the people behind them, wouldn't elect a convicted felon, or a con artist, or a grifter, or a corrupt, known pathological liar, like Trump to any office where they had any influence in government. An educated and informed electorate was, to the founders, a wall of protection to the Constitution against a subversive, and in this case, seditious faction.