I guess that's where we differ, I do believe that all too often their shortcomings do fall on the malice side of the razor.
Probably all for naught anyways in regards to our government.
You probably already know what I'm about to blather about.
Nothing short of a miracle what the founding fathers of the Continental Congress pulled off. They had a contemptuous disdain for the common man's intellectual capacity to actually elect representatives that served their best interest. Thank you Jefferson. Many of them thought we were going to immediately give our independence away by putting the vote in the hands of the people.
The electoral saved us from the Tyrany of the Masses only for so long as voting requirements could be kept stringent.
Even after the party system developed, from presidential to congressional the csndidates campaigned to educated voters on the merits of their own appeal and hardly ran smear campaigns. Almost like a taciturn truce of sorts with the realization that an ill informed voters base couldn't elect a functional government. Thank you stringent voter requirements.
But alas the voter requirements were steadily lowered, the voters less informed, and the candidates increasingly made unrealistic promises while running smear campaigns.
I've been told that the Bush/Clinton election broke the modern day Overton Window on presidential smear campaigns. I don't know how accurate that is, but I know despite the voter base and participation in the presidential elections increasing, participation at state levels has steadily fallen in comparison. The candidates have increasingly campaigned by appealing to the lowest common denominators to the stupidest voter base we've ever had as social media has exasperated everything.
Thank God for the electoral compromise. We made it about 200 years longer than many of the founding fathers thought we would. Just as they feared though, the stupidity of the masses was too much to overcome.
All that to say, I think the Judiciary Branch is the only one still capable of functioning as it was intended. I don't know how we fix the other two with most the voter base hardly participating at the state level and making their presidential decisions off 140 character tweets.
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