I think where the founders got it wrong is not expecting the population to be so ignorant and easily swayable. For instance, school voucher measures, which woul

I think where the founders got it wrong is not expecting the population to be so ignorant and easily swayable. For instance, school voucher measures, which would benefit so many people, tend to get shut down due to lobbying efforts from rich and powerful teacher's unions: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2016/11/13/teachers-unions-faulty-economics-and-school-choice/?sh=fcbfdb17c73f https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2016/11/13/teach... If people were wiser and did their research better, these kinds of campaigns would be ineffective and the rich would lose their sway. The founders also probably didn't expect our government to grow so large and so corrupt. The richest and most corrupt entity in the United States is the government itself. The vast majority of the government is not even beholden to people at all in any way, shape, or form. This includes the tens of thousands of employees in the federal bureaucracies, as well as organizations like teacher's unions who are funded indirectly by tax dollars. Many, if not all, monopolies today are also artificially created by government policy, allowing for an unholy union of corporations and the government.