This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take "Anti-Communist" Classes

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23. Easy to say in 20-20 hindsight.

The U.S. Constitution's writers weren't perfect, but they 'constituted' the best version of a democratic republic in its day.

They also made it amendable to change, with new historical circumstances. I'd only agree that we're fucked now because we ourselves have not made the time to ratify new amendments. The last amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the 27th Amendment, was ratified on May 7, 1992. Originally proposed in 1789, it prohibits Congress from increasing or decreasing its salary until an election of Representatives has occurred.

After that amendment, nothing.
Not for lack of trying on women's part, though. The ERA languished for reasons mostly men know.

There are other problems with our current constitution that its writers knew about but decided against.
Most important to a nation is that its constitution hold that education be a fundamental constitutional right.
They knew that an educated citizenry was best for a democratic republic -- called a Jeffersonian democracy -- but the Constitution's writers and signers decided to turn education over to the states.
That's what we still have -- 50 different state systems, curricula, capital outlays, and varying taxes levied to pay for it, which makes for a wide 50-state variance of excellence in basic education, and worse, a public that doesn't value systematic education of its descendants. We didn't even have public education in the South until after the Civil War, when blacks in southern state legislatures pressed their states to establish public schools.

We're also fucked because many people who have the ability and desire to go into higher education can't even afford state university educations, nevermind the private universities like the Ivies, U of Chicago or Northwestern. So we're fucked with over 65% of our population undereducated, as in not having at least four years of college.

I've got a lot more to say, but suffice to say we've been fucked over by elites since the nation's funders founded it.