hi orda,
i think the real problem is that the us constitution is a statement of philosophy. it didn't grow out of internal experience and it was designed to provide considerable resistance to real time responsiveness.
some think that is its virtue.
but the problems that are building up behind this inability to adapt are the sort that require earthquakes to shift them.
we've seen how politics cannot shift hard problems within the constitutional framework prior to the us civil war. in that case, the issue was a state's right to manage its own affairs.
now we are seeing how incumbent commercial interests control the chess board using the same set of tools. the tools of frustration and dark influence.
when the common will is thwarted, the pressure between incumbency and progress/innovation grows to seismic proportions. very frustrating, when the popular will has often devised sensible pathways forward. where there are no incumbent commercial actors in the way, things work pretty well.
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