Don’t blame the Founders, they set up a system that has worked better than any other elected representative government anywhere else, longer than anywhere else, in the world.
THey knew it was vulnerable because of the nature of PEOPLE. The caveat was that they had to have the large majority of people, be a moral people both running it and living in the country. Franklin’s “if you can keep it” comment alludes to it, as well as another’s “this govt only works with a moral people” comment. It was a government that required people to be SELF-controlled, not compelled/controlled by govt to be civil.
Well we’ve slowly become less and less moral. We’ve reached the pointthey warned about where people have found they can vote themselves other people’s money.
Don’t blame the Founders. You can’t set up a perfect system here when imperfect people are living and running it, and voting for totally selfish reasons. It could have been kept in check by remaining a Christian nation, swift death penalty sentences for capital crimes of murder, rape, kidnapping, bank robbery, attempted murder, and other heinous crimes. And the ongoing promotion of Christian values in education (which it was until commie Dewey and the Unitarians) and by parents.
But we went off that tried and tested formula. Because we knew better. Because we needed something “better” and “new”. And here we are. Not the Founders’ fault.
You have a point. And so do I. Is there a publicly traded company that you know that appoints its chief executive for a fixed term of 4 years with the rules set up in such a way that it is nearly impossible to remove him, because, say, the lowest paid, lowest intelligence workers would have to approve his removal? Well, a prime minister in parliamentary systems, that is the chief executive, can be relatively easily removed. The president in such systems is elected for a fixed term and does not wield much day to day executive power. All points about morality, God and so on being perfectly valid, but in setting up executive powers, our Founders blew it!