How are voters ever to learn to be good citizens in an antidemocratic system?

[eniwetok]

10. so you agree that the Constitution set the politics of 1787 in cement?

That is essentially what you're saying. And sure, every special interest that was invited to what we now call the Constitutional Convention wanted a system that checked every other special interest. Toss in some class warfare with Madison wanting the Senate to protect the interests of the "minority of the opulent". Toss in some goodies for the slave states like the EC... and THIS is why we have the EC... to magnify the power of whites in the slave states... not because of RI. The eventual formula benefited RI, but RI wasn't even represented at the Convention. Much of what we think we know about the EC was concocted later. I'll dig up the minutes of the Convention if you like...

But are we, today, forever to be held to the will of 2000 or so white men who ratified this agreement when the Framers negated the Articles? The Article were supposed to the a perpetual union... requiring unanimous consent to make amendments. And sure, the smaller states aren't the ones screwed in the current system... it's the PEOPLE in the larger states. Any citizen living in CA who moves to WY automatically gets a 3.3x bigger presidential vote and 70x bigger vote for the Senate. No, CA's larger House contingent doesn't make up for the difference because any citizen in CA only gets one representative.

The bottom line is the current system can not provide morally legitimate government as election 2016 proved. We can face the defects in the system... or forever be the victims of those defects.