Poll: What Does the United States Need?

[Spider Jerusalem]

36. Not going to happen, no

because people in the USA have a bizarre and pathological reverence for the antiquated Constitution and act like it was brought down from Mount Sinai graven in stone even when it becomes increasingly clear that the form of government it mandates is inherently flawed, fundamentally broken and ultimately unworkable (states representing fifteen percent of the population control half the seats in the Senate, for instance). The country will collapse into civil war and disunion and old men with tears in their eyes will talk wistfully of a mythic land called the United States of America before there's any chance of changing the system. But that doesn't mean we can't talk about it, anyway. (It's fascinating to see how many people are incapable of both walking and chewing gum at the same time.)