> “As my colleague Mike Seidman once put it, imagine you are sitting in a room and you’re trying to figure out how to solve some 21st-century challenge we face,” says Brooks. “Then someone bursts in and says, ‘Hey, I’ve got the answer. I’ve found this document written in the late-18th century when America only had four million people, most of whom were farmers.’ Do you really think they would have a clue?”
This sort of strawman rhetoric is silly and easy to dismiss. If the document had been used for hundreds of years to successfully achieve peaceful transfers of power, and the ideas within were a reflection of deep and considered thoughts on the creation of a sustainable representative government, then it would be foolish to disregard it, even if you find pieces of it objectionable.
But the entire article is written with that same thoughtless tone, and the critiques it presents have less nuance than a brick.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 9.7 ms ] threadThis sort of strawman rhetoric is silly and easy to dismiss. If the document had been used for hundreds of years to successfully achieve peaceful transfers of power, and the ideas within were a reflection of deep and considered thoughts on the creation of a sustainable representative government, then it would be foolish to disregard it, even if you find pieces of it objectionable.
But the entire article is written with that same thoughtless tone, and the critiques it presents have less nuance than a brick.