As late as February 2025, respected legal commentator Noah Feldman was casually asserting our constitutional system was “working fine” and Jon Stewart was scolding people who used the word “fascist,” claiming all they had done “over the last ten years is cry wolf.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025
It strikes me that this once again confuses working fine with working the way I personally want.
Yeah, our system gives the people what they want, and you know what, the people kind of suck. It's garbage in garbage out, to use the computer term. Just because we're getting really crappy results doesn't mean it's not working. It just means, well the problem with democracy is the people.
This system is working fine. It's doing exactly what it is supposed to do. And it's our fault for electing these people, and reelecting them, and putting this garbage in.
We need to stop re-electing these same representatives, because we're just telling the system that we once it to deliver us these results. So it does. Like it's supposed to.
