I used to be way more involved in politics.  I was even an alternate delegate at the RNC for Ron Paul (my husband was a delegate).  That was an eye opening event to see how utterly corrupt the politics are and how undemocratic things really work.  They literally had the results of the voice vote on the teleprompter to make sure they got the "right" answer and not necessarily what the delegates voted for.  They turned off the microphones in the areas with Ron Paul delegates and the main group opposing the rule changes that stole power from the delegates was driven around town on a bus for hours to make sure he missed the vote.  In the rule change vote, they didn't tell the delegates that they were voting to approve letting the executive committee make decisions without the, they just said it was a vote to approve what the committee suggested.  They refused to allow calls for division that would've forced a counted vote.  It was sickening.

Of course the DNC is even worse.  I'm coming to the conclusion that America is doomed. 

 What you described in being Ron Paul delegates for the RNC (right candidate 👍) reminds me of a book I read on how the US Constitution was passed, "Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788" by Pauline Maier, except then it happened on a larger scale, and for something far more significant. Basically corrupt shenanigans were used to steamroll acceptance of the Constitution, by the Federalists (who were like the Democrats of their day), which of course they don't teach you in school, and most Americans are likely ignorant of.

Alexander Hamilton and others wrote The Federalist Papers claiming the federal government would be limited in its powers, to get the Constitution to be accepted, but then once in office they did the opposite. A bait and switch, just like so many politicians have done when they are elected...

https://a.co/d/1iLcSOronly 

 Hamilton was the beginning of all that is bad in the Federal government.  He was a smart man (unlike most of our politicians today), but he also had very tyrannical tendencies.  Still, I think he would be appalled with what we have become today (culturally and what our government has become).  As bad as he was, I don't think he would like what we have today. 

 I think you're right. Hamilton probably would be proud that America became a great and powerful empire and that the president is more powerful than the monarch of Great Britain, but he surely would be appalled at what the USA has degenerated to.