One thing that I think about a lot is how political disagreements in the US just don't work the same way that they did in the 1780s. At that time, political disagreements were primarily about geography and the distinctions between the different states, and the constitution was designed with that in mind. Now, political disagreements are about some combination of the following:
class conflict
demographics
culture wars
partisanship
ideology
with distinctions between states being more or less irrelevant. But we're still stuck with a constitution that was designed to resolve geographic-based conflicts but isn't very good at resolving partisan/class/cultural conflicts.
Agreed.
One thing that I think about a lot is how political disagreements in the US just don't work the same way that they did in the 1780s. At that time, political disagreements were primarily about geography and the distinctions between the different states, and the constitution was designed with that in mind. Now, political disagreements are about some combination of the following:
with distinctions between states being more or less irrelevant. But we're still stuck with a constitution that was designed to resolve geographic-based conflicts but isn't very good at resolving partisan/class/cultural conflicts.