193. Chris Edwards on Educational Reform and Thought Experiments
The Michael Shermer Show
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All Men Are Created Equal People
I don't think jefferson meant it in the sense that all men are created equal people. He's talking about king george the third, who thinks he is better than everyon. There's not much evidence that the jefferson had read john lockebut the american system was seemingly a kind of based off of this british concept to have a parliament in opposition to the sovereign. And so we've got this real glitch in the system, which is political parties. i proposed a thought experiment based on what if you could run for congress or the house of representatives without actually having a political party? You can just randomly vote for the republicans on 50 % of seven
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