Clinton recalled that, too, on a video I just saw.
In the intervening decades, and actually going back to the beginning of the Republic really, Americans have not been helped to see or to act on the systemic aspects of their political fragmentation.
They tend to blame eachother and/or foreigners, in predictable partisan ways, class, sections, or interest groups, sent in these directions by many types of centrifugal forces, of all kinds, public and private, unleashed, rather beyond the common welfare, and never really brought under the level of integrity and control associated even with a nation state.
Reading Ratification, and reading about the yearning of some rather important, and well meaning people, like Washington, who had long suffered through the weaknesses and embarrassments under the Articles of Confederation and the Continental Congress, who hoped for a stronger, respectable, national government, maybe not tomorrow, in 1787, but some day.
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