The Original Voting System in the US
by Edwin L. Young, PhD

The Founding Fathers put in the constitution that all men were created equal.  They said the people could vote for the candidate of their choice.  Of course, people did not mean slaves, Native American, or women.  After all, slaves were not fully human.  The Native Americans should all be dead before the first vote.  And women, well, why bother with them, how likely was it that they would get to the polls when they were always barefoot and pregnant.  Anyway, if the women did get to the polls, they would vote for the man who was an honest gentleman who was the best looking.  You will recall most of the ‘Founding Fathers’ were businessmen and lawyers and all were politicians.  Furthermore, have you seen their pictures?  The Founding Fathers did not have to think twice about that one.  Maybe they thought women were actually the same as slaves.  Alternatively, maybe because they were not given an education they would be too stupid to vote yet smart enough to know what they were really like.  On the other hand, maybe they knew none of those women was going to vote for any male bastard anyway.

They did not worry about the rest of the people because it is clear that they thought ‘the people’ were too stupid and uninformed to know for what they were voting.  They surely made the implicit assumption that for which the people voted depended on which candidates were the best hoodwinker and liar.  Each Founding Father was so arrogant that they were sure they would win; after all, they had already demonstrated they were among the best hoodwinkers and liars in the land.