The United States - a Brilliant Mistake? [View all]

[speak easy]

There is a DU post that got me thinking - if the Founding Fathers could have seen into the future, would the Constitution read the way it does

I think the bigger question is - if the Founding Fathers could have seen into the future, would there have even been a Constitution?. If Benjamin Franklin had been given the opportunity to be heard by TPTB, if the colonies had settled their differences with GIII, would we be all that worse off?

The obvious comparison is Canada, but the mother ship and all of it's english speaking former colonies, all have kept the hardest RW at bay, all- except this one. When was the last time RW thugs occupied the parliaments of the UK/Canada/Australia/New Zealand to overturn an election? A: There was not one.

I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurting feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
It was a fine idea at the time
Now it's a brilliant mistake
Elvis Costello