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I think we have many citizens that need to recognize that the founding fathers were humans and not divine utopia engineers.
We should change some stuff to make the country better. Many of the big things were designed to be very hard to change though. That makes me worry that things will have to get that much worse before the people & politicians are ready to actually do something.
As a German I'm proud of our constitution, too, and I think it does a great job at making it as hard as possible for something like the Nazis to easily happen again.
That doesn't mean that it was perfect all the time and is unchangeable.
I think it's insane how the US things their constitution is the pinnacle of democracy - especially since it was the first one and others iterated on our
I think it is closely tied to the American exceptionalism programmed into many people like it’s a law of nature.
Like literally, in their heads, it’s that we are God’s chosen country, and I guess that’s makes our founding documents infallible.
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It's a religion.
A weird civic religion like nothing that came before it.
The founding fathers are thir prophets, constitution is their holy scripture, the flag their holy icon and the anthem their hymn.
You don't just change scripture :coughamendmentscough:, you don't even read it - you get a priest to interpret it and tell you what it means in this context. You take it on faith that the things in it are infallible and eternal, even though you don't understand them or know what they are.
Look at it through the lens of civic-relgious fundamentalism, and most of America makes a horrible kind of sense.
Uh, I think the Magna Carta is a little bit older.
I think we have many citizens who should have to pass the citizenship test before voting.