> I'm not sure the current approach is long-term viable. If your long-term is long enough, you're guaranteed to be correct... Putting that aside, even if you

> I'm not sure the current approach is long-term viable. If your long-term is long enough, you're guaranteed to be correct... Putting that aside, even if you think your 'big change' is right and prudent and will Make Things Better, other people have their own plans. Now, unless you get rid of popular representation, you have legal hysteresis, and everyone's planning horizon lasts until the Next Big Change. Suddenly nobody's building nothing. So you're left with a mess or an authoritarian government. Resistance to wild swings is actual conservatism at work, and is a very good thing.