"...The protest, I am afraid, is simply another segment in our long-running national reality show, in which both sides continually posture while no one seriously addresses issues...."
This is rather similar, for me, to how Nevins had put it, in his multivolume work on the period before the Civil War.
Nevins had called it simply ' drift '.
It is what the American political system was actually designed to do best, which was rather little, really, because they distrusted large, strong, or active government, at any level really.
Let's just put it this way: it does what it was designed to do very, very, very, well.
It was designed for endless political conversation, musical chairs at all levels, but not for change anywhere, except, sadly, elsewhere.
I watched an interview with Bobbitt several years ago. He pointed out, when asked something about the need for substantial reform, perhaps it was a question merely about even substantial reform legislation rather than constitutional change, something to the effect that our system is extraordinarily difficult to significantly reform...
Bobbitt ought to know. Take a look at Constitutional Fate, or Constitutional Interpretation, not just his later, big, pot boilers.
It was designed for endless political conversation, musical chairs at all levels, but not for change anywhere, except, sadly, elsewhere.
I watched an interview with Bobbitt several years ago. He pointed out, when asked something about the need for substantial reform, perhaps it was a question merely about even substantial reform legislation rather than constitutional change, something to the effect that our system is extraordinarily difficult to significantly reform...
Bobbitt ought to know. Take a look at Constitutional Fate, or Constitutional Interpretation, not just his later, big, pot boilers.
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