@billjurgensen Exactly. This attitude is clear from the private letters between the founders that we have as they discussed all this. The attitude was basically, well if they're stupid enough to do this then they deserve the government they get. The founders assumed rational politicians and rational voters. They had no knowledge of mass manipulation tactics. Those weren't developed until the early 20th century. Nor was mass manipulation possible or imaginable to the founders, who lived when horseback was the fastest form of communication.

They never imagined a world where I, for example, can post something on the Internet that millions of people across the whole country could see instantly if they wanted to.