SwingingTheLamp

Despite all the (phony) reverence for the document in the U.S., the Constitutional Convention fucked up, badly. The Founding Fathers disliked political parties, considering them divisive, so they drew up a system that assumes that all office-holders are independent. That system is supposed to leverage the mutually-opposing interests of the representatives to check and balance each other. It simply can’t work if a group of people with aligned interests control multiple branches of government.

They signed their new constitution in 1788, and by 1792, Alexander Hamilton formed the first political party. Whoops.

Eighty years? That’s nothing! They wrapped on the prequel in 1648, which means that it was over 260 years before they dropped the next episode. Unfortunately, the writers never gave the storyline of German national trauma a satisfactory resolution. It’s kind of lazy writing TBH, just spreading the problem to a new country, as if the people in the story were too stupid to fix it permanently.