They aren't smarter than us and they don't know anything about the present. I don't care what the founders thought nor what people today imagine they would think.
This is more an indictment of 20th and 21st century politicians than it is the founders.
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When you're running for a district you can slice the population up into various causes and then run on that. It doesn't matter if your platform is "far-X" because if you can scoop up 20% of the population that's a win at the ballot.
Congress really needs to be larger than it is, the citizen:representative ratio should really be fixed at a ratio and not fixed at the #of representatives. Plenty of other countries have more representatives than the US despite a smaller population. Assuming that we picked say 150k citizens: 1 representative then you should also be able to forfeit your vote along with ~150k other people to select a representative.
I don't care if you want to blame someone else for "not implementing the obvious vision of the founders."
They aren't here and can't make any decisions for us that we couldn't better make ourselves. They aren't wiser than us.
Our present state isn't some deviation from their potential utopia. Their intentions are completely irrelevant. Comporting our behavior and desires with whatever someone might imagine they would want is nonsense.
I assume that you're a relatively recent migrant or descendent of migrants with no ties to the historical American nation, so I'm not surprised you wouldn't care what somebody else's ancestors think.
The American constitution has been highly influential on many countries, and many countries have had experiences that contradict the ideas in it quite successfully.
