For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country’s core institutions.
I don’t disagree with you, but our institutions were designed at a time when messages traveled at the speed of a horse and 90% of the population were growing food for everyone. While there has been a concerted effort to undermine our institutions, they’re also old and there might be better
Of course, this means a Constitutional Convention, and because those rules were written hundreds of years ago it will also give land more representation than people, and we’ll probably end up with something worse than what we have.
I don’t disagree with you, but our institutions were designed at a time when messages traveled at the speed of a horse and 90% of the population were growing food for everyone. While there has been a concerted effort to undermine our institutions, they’re also old and there might be better
Of course, this means a Constitutional Convention, and because those rules were written hundreds of years ago it will also give land more representation than people, and we’ll probably end up with something worse than what we have.