The curious thing about this is that our current president keeps telling the world that they have to switch to democracy, because democracies don't wage war on their neighbors. Now, clearly America does wage war on our neighbors - see Iraq, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, etc. Why are we so anxious to pick a form of government for the rest of the world, when we refuse to adopt that form for our own government? One would have to conclude that we want to retain our ability to wage war on our neighbors.

All snark aside, I do wish we could somehow make some big moves towards democracy. For example, we should elect a president by democracy. Why aren't we all embarrassed by our fear of doing so? Perhaps this isn't possible because the revisions needed to the constitution would be so great as to essentially open the whole document up for revisions, and that would likely mean we would become a nation with a state religion, with science officially restricted by the Bible, with revenge as the primary driver of our justice system, etc. For some reason we are all still proud to be Americans.

I miss the Constitution.