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NNadir

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42. I gave my reasons for stating that for all of its successes, it's worn out, in another post. My son gave me a book...

Reply to intheflow (Reply #41)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 03:46 PM

19 hrs ago

...for Christmas a year or so ago that I really must find time to read, although I never get around to it.

It's this one:

Fears of a Setting Sun.

It's about how the founders themselves questioned what they'd built. They needn't have worried so much, until, now.

The US Constitution was a great work for the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, but it's worn out by the technology of our times. It no longer works to establish Democracy; it has become lipstick on an oligarchy that pretends to be a Democracy. It can't handle the technology of our times, in particular, information technology.

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