I've seen a number of people trying to deny the truth, and it's honestly sickening at this point. How bad do things have to get for people to acknowledge what I recognized on the night of November 5th? People really cannot handle reality as it is.
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You're not wrong, but the American liberal incarnation is done for. If anything similar will ever arise, it'll be a near complete rebuild.
The American experiment isn't done, because a complete rebuild was always going to be necessary.
The founders themselves saw the flaws, and fought tooth and nail over the "right" ways to fix them, but eventually compromised on short-term solutions that they knew would eventually fail. They themselves were just as flawed, but they were still radical.
Their constitution and government was nothing more than a model for future generations, a design for an experiment that was ongoing. It never should have been a long-lived foundation which would undergo centuries of institutional rot, let alone deified into the false idol that it is today.
No matter what they built, it was unfortunately always up to the next generations to rebuild it and figure things out for themselves. You can't build a system - any system - that someone else can't break down after you leave.
Jefferson - The Earth belongs always to the living generation. Any law or constitution expires, and if it is enforced longer than a generation, it is 'an act of force.' (paraphrased)
Washington - But the Constitution which at any time exists, ’till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the People to establish Government presupposes the duty of every Individual to obey the established Government.
Madison - A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.
Franklin - "[the constitution founded] a Republic, if you can keep it."
The truth is they didn't keep it. We don't have a democracy, or any system of self-rule. The first trial failed. But the experiment isn't over. As long as people are willing to overthrow tyrants and rebuild something better, then the experiment can continue.
And that is IMO a good thing, I'm so tired of their stupid "get rich equals get happy & work yourself to death" culture they bring everywhere, where everything have yo be monetized and force fed to the masses like cheap fast food.