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I think there are multiple irreparable holes in the US Constitution. That doesn't mean tyranny is inevitable, though, it just means we need to start fresh (whi

I think there are multiple irreparable holes in the US Constitution. That doesn't mean tyranny is inevitable, though, it just means we need to start fresh (which is what they did when they came up with the Constitution anyway).

rectang 1y ago
Amending the Constitution to fix such holes is impractical when it would require the approval of states whose hold on perpetual minority rule would be threatened. So then we're looking at a constitutional convention. Can you imagine our current crop of politicians cooperating to negotiate something which improves on the current Constitution? I'd expect a prisoner's dilemma with a defect-defect outcome and the winner taking all of the diminished spoils. I think we're stuck with what we've got and we have to hope that enough voters are persuadable, allowing us to emerge from the hole.
- BrenBarn 1y ago
  If we could persuade enough voters to get out of the hole, why can't we persuade enough to fix the hole (and the other holes)?