The Constitution Needs a Reboot

Politico ^ | September 7, 2018 | Sanford V. Levinson

[publius911]

Vote, Write, Speak, adjure and cajole if need be, but do not accept the false premise that the ship is sinking and all we are doing is rearranging the deck chairs.
God Bless the American People, the most generous, long suffering, freedom loving and fierce people on the face of the earth.

The Founding Fathers were incapable of imagining that in the future we could be dealing with ignorant, irrational, or even unreasonable citizens.

Incompetents today can't grasp the difference between "the people" as the original citizens of the United States, not every individual in the entire world.

Similarly, the founding Fathers were incapable of imagining that the "citizens" of the future could or would embrace koranimals as a religion, with all Constitutional rights and protections.
Just to list two of dozens of insane examples. Actions by a clueless public, incompetent Legislators and even tribal and pervert politics by Supreme Court Justices.

[JimRed]

This legal “scholar” also called Scalia the trash talker of the Supreme Court.

Because Scalia spoke truth, and TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!

[PapaBear3625]

The Constitution’s dysfunction extends far beyond any individual president. Thanks to its variety of “veto gates,” the document makes it nearly impossible to pass legislation truly meeting the problems facing the country.

Somehow, I think that if the Republicans decided to nuke cloture completely, and started passing Trump-favored legislation over the screams of the Dems, that this author would be among the first to start screaming hysterically.

[Ohioan]

The Federal Government was not created to rule over us, but rather to perform specific functions for the States that created it.

Opinionated chaps like the author do not bother to read it as an entity, so they do not really understand it.

Constitutional Overview

[publius911]

AND Comprehensive Understanding of Simple Words, Definitions, Punctuation and Sentence structure.

And... the certain rejection of errors (including punctuation!) in any manuscript copies distributed to the 13 States.

[publius911]

Not enough people connect the dots between our political dysfunctions and the sacred Constitution of 1787.

There's stupid, and then there's "stupid on steroids."
No State ratified the Constitution without the Bill of Rights, which was not added to the "Final" Constitution until the end of 1791...

Anyone venerating (or disparaging) the "sacred" 1887 version is a certified idiot!

[Chode]

America is at that awkward stage where it’s too late to work within the system but still too early to start slitting throats

yet... there may come a time when you must spit on your hands, raise the black flag and start doing just that...