It's really not a jaded perspective, just an honest one—and one that everyone else in the world largely recognizes except Americans. American's today hold up t

It's really not a jaded perspective, just an honest one—and one that everyone else in the world largely recognizes except Americans. American's today hold up the US Constitution as some kind of divine and immutable document. They treat it like The Bible, where all the "bad" or ambiguous parts are just kind of forgotten about or supposed to be interpreted a certain way. I mean, the 3/5ths compromise is literally in Article 1. That's how important institutionalized racism was. "… a horrible mess of weird ideas and compromise and intentional ambiguity," actually describes the US Constitution quite marvelously IMO. It's purpose was to unite a group of states that had no unity and no singular identity. The binding force was a common enemy. People read into all this mystical nonsense about what the "Founding Fathers" would think about this, that, or the other thing as if they had some kind of divine wisdom. No one was really thinking that far ahead. A quarter of them were willing to sign anything that let them keep their slaves. It's just a document with a few good ideas. That's it. That's all it is.