The system is broken because...

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36. The 2nd Amendment is an Artifact Representing Why the Existing Constitution, Already Dead at the Hands of Roberts...

...et al., needs replacement.

Another is the Electoral College, the last remaining artifact of the human slavery that many at the Constitutional Convention practiced.

I am not talking about guns however, although I'm quite sure that James Madison had no idea of the concept of bump stocks, machine guns, or for that matter, nuclear weapons or Kevlar. The amendment was about militias, not giving thugs weapons to shoot up elementary schools, but no matter...

Neither were the founders aware of the power of instantaneous communication, telephones, radios, TVs not to mention the big elephant, the internet.

I am talking about the entire system which has evolved under political parties - which the founders held in contempt although they did nothing successful to prevent their rise - it's outlived its magnificent history of usefulness.

The Supreme Court is a case in point. The founders could not imagine that highly politicized partisans, rapists, religious fundamentalists, openly bribed types like Clarence Thomas, would be on the court with lifetime appointments, impossible to remove outside of death. They had no idea of the molecular biology of aging, nor the mechanisms of extreme wealth beyond monarchies by which one could buy Justices like Thomas, Alito, et Roberts, et al.

They didn't anticipate the likes of McConnell, or for that matter, Lindsay Graham.

The founders had no idea that access to information - an independent press - could be purchased and turned into mechanisms of instantaneous propaganda.

The Constitution is dead. A political party killed it. We need a new one for our times.