> the government acts like a rotten two-year-old that keeps trying until it gets its way Point of clarification: the government itself has no inherent interest

> the government acts like a rotten two-year-old that keeps trying until it gets its way Point of clarification: the government itself has no inherent interest here, and is acting mostly on behalf of influential Big Content lobbyists. Like so many other first-world systemic problems, this is yet another government-industrial complex. > the constitution is a whitelist of things the federal government may do Yes, this is how it should work, but it hasn't worked this way for a long time; scope creep has taken on a life of its own. Without implying a simple, "magic bullet" solution, We The People should acknowledge just how broken our electoral system is, and that it is the central impediment towards regaining anything resembling a constitutionally constrained democratic republic.