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Excellent - thanks for posting.
“...I have expressed amazement at the design of the U.S. political system — so awkward and unwieldy as to render it almost totally dysfunctional...”
Hey, Vic! That was the idea, man.
He neglects to understand the simple fact that the US was born partly out of understanding the Established Church directly. It wasn’t merely a matter of “history”. All colonists had to pay tax to support the Church of England, regardless if they were let to have their own churches. They understood both that the Gov should not be controlled by the Church (e.g., Catholic), and the Church (e.g., Anglican) should not be controlled by the Gov.
I guess Vic wants a political system just like the one he fled from
One need not be an immigrant to be wondering that, I have been for years.
The founders intentionally designed the government for the slow percolation of laws through the system, so they would be deliberate, fair and necessary.
Consider the story of the saucer.
“There is a tradition that, on his return from France, Jefferson called Washington to account at the breadfast-table for having agreed to a second chamber.
” ‘Why,’ asked Washington, ‘did you pour that coffee into your saucer?’
” ‘To cool it,’ quoth Jefferson.
” ‘Even so,’ said Washington, ‘we pour legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it.’
But that is not the BAD news. The bad news is that the founders also knew that this nation could only work given a moral, informed, religious electorate. We are heading to a secular morally-relativist electorate, and the founders knew with certainty that our laws were wholly inadequate for governing such people.
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams