• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Jesus fucking Christ, our constitution is so flawed, it’s not even funny.

    What an antiquated, garbage document. It needs some thorough updating or we need to start from scratch.

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      8 months ago

      It was designed to be specifically undemocratic in a couple of situations. The intent, of course, is that Congress could block populist or extremist candidates from the presidency. But that depends on the legislature not being composed of complete imbeciles.

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        8 months ago

        We should think about it in the context of the US being the first modern democracy, and they had to fight off criticism from royalists that democracy would lead to mob rule by uneducated peasants.

        That, plus the fact that at least half the people involved in writing it wanted to make sure the institution of slavery was protected.

        It makes a lot more sense from those perspectives. Given that neither of these premises are true today, there’s a very good reason to question the validity of the whole thing.

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          8 months ago

          Except that if we started over and wrote the Constitution from scratch, we’d be the United States of Walmart.

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              8 months ago

              Believe it or not, no. It could be a lot worse. The government is a thin layer protecting us from corporitocracy. It often fails, but getting rid of it isn’t going to make things any better.

              We’re still several steps above Russia, for now.

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      8 months ago

      Which CAN be done. It takes 34 states to call for a convwntion, and IIRC 27 or 28 already have… buuut… they’re red states.

      So if you want a Christo-Fascist constitution, you’re in luck!

      THEN it has to be RATIFIED by 38 states to take effect.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t disagree with you in principle, but I also do not trust our elected officials anywhere to amend it at this point in history

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      8 months ago

      It isn’t a flaw, it is by design. The constitution was designed to bring states together, not people. The things in it that give favor to states with larger populations were only put in to appease the states with larger populations. so it is only as much as was needed. Also, to ratify the constitution they voted… one vote per colony. Only needed 9 of 13.