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America's political system being fundamentally broken. People point to George Washington's farewell address like he was some 5d chess genius seeing into the future when really he was a dying old man who had just spent eight painful years watching the country shift into bipartisan gridlock
The Founding Fathers didn't really know what they were doing in creating the Constitution. They just kind of guessed based on what they saw as best practices at the time and compromised where they needed to.
And the Constitution was the scary document that gave more power to a federal government
Plus decorum in Congress. Elected officials were literally beating each other with canes.
I'm not sure I agree (observing from the outside as a Brit). I feel like Citizens United is the origin of a lot of the problems in modern US politics and that was only 2010.
For those who don't know it, it's a landmark legal case that basically allowed a lot more money into politics. When you make winning politically about who can raise the most money you take power out of most poeple and put it in the hands of rich people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Yeah no. I don't want to say that money and politics hasn't gotten worse. But our first past the post voting system has been documented as being inappropriate for selecting leadership basically all along
Recorded media, electronic media, is something the founding fathers never had to deal with.
Painful years because of bipartisan gridlock, or his teeth?