Democracy Can Plant the Seeds of Its Own Destruction
I think the problem goes much deeper. The US Constitution, together with the "Founding Fathers", has become more like a religious doctrine, venerated even in the way it is talked about - in hushed voices.
Most constitutional governments around the world have seen fit to modify their constitutions in order to adapt to an ever more rapidly changing world, while the US is tenaciously holding on to tenets, which demonstrably do not work to maintain a healthy society.
Part of the problem is in the way the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution - just read the convoluted arguments of Scalia to bend the English language into a pretzel to accommodate the dogmatic views of the NRA - and the ridiculous notion that Corporations are people with free speech protection.
The Constitution has now essentially allowed the US to be taken over by a mad man, with no moral or ethical compass, left in office by a Congress with no courage, no regard for "we the people" but only to their narrow, self-serving political interests, supported and encouraged by that special group of "people", Corporations, each of which essentially has the voting equivalence of tens of thousands of "normal" people.
The two-party system, implicitly enshrined by the Constitution, forces splinter political groups to invade and either take over, or at least paralyze mainstream political parties - evident by the takeover of the GOP by the Tea Party, and now the paralysis of the GOP by Bannon's neo nationalists.
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