Reply #1: The Senate is the House of Lords for a putative non-aristocracy [View All]

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It's a disgrace that it retains the power it does, where similar bodies elsewhere have rightly been relegated to a primarily ceremonial role. The framers of the Constitution were not geniuses. They were people of their time of a particular social class, with quite predictable prejudices and interests for their demographic. Their version of social organization is not eternal, ahistorical, or perfect. It is an effect of their various historically situated interests and beliefs. Fetishization of the framers and their vision of human social organization is increasingly revealing itself for what it is: a social catastrophe, and little better than the God-thought and baseless reliance on authority that their very Enlightenment was supposed to free us from.