Reply #6: I guess "Follow the money" was good advice about U.S. politics when Deep Throat said it & before DT [View All]

said it and and is now, maybe more than ever.

Before Deep Throat summed it up so economically:

"Follow the money" was what led to "discovery" of the "New" "World," which had already been occupied for about 50,000 years before Magellan, Columbus and Vespucci (and perhaps a Viking or two).

"Follow the money" was also what led to financing of colonization of the New World, something to which an Original American friend referred as "infestation." We like to believe it was all about freedom of religion, but that was not the motivation nof the East India company and others like it.

IMO, when the U.S. Constitution was first presented to states for ratification, it was a very pro-business document, as well as being racist, protective of slavery and sexist.

The people rebelled against the total absence of protection for individual.

The Framers explained that the document was intended only to give the federal government certain powers. OF COURSE, the federal government was never going to interfere with individual rights because it had absolutely no power so to do. Hence the absence of provisions about individual rights, which would be and always remain between individuals and their respective states.

Thank God the colonists would have none of it. The states agreed to ratify only if both individual and states' rights were expressly protected. Hence, the states ratified only on the condition that the Constitution be amended ASAP. And it was.

Who knows whether that was because politicians kept their word back in the day, or because that same group of people had recently overthrown another government and therefore politicians had good reason to fear them.

If something similar happened today, would we be that smart and that insistent, I wonder?