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The US has been well-served by our constitution. Sure, we still have issues, but it's a massive barrier to power-hungry bureaucrats.
by rpmisms 5y ago
The US has been well-served by our constitution. Sure, we still have issues, but it's a massive barrier to power-hungry bureaucrats.
- christophilus 5y agoI re-read a bunch of Ben Franklin this past year. It’s hard to overstate just how fortunate the US was to have foundation-builders who could think so clearly. After reading the founders, watching anything on CSPAN is just depressing. Warren Buffett famously quipped that he looks for companies with a system that could be successfully helmed by a monkey, because eventually, a monkey will be at the helm. I think the founding fathers thought the same way, and attempted to set up such a system. We’ll see how long it can last with monkeys at the helm.