Those evil white guys some 225+ years ago had just won a war, but were losing the peace. We had enormous debt without the means to repay. Calls to reestablish a monarchy were heard. The future looked bleak.
If there is a way out, it will once again require the diffused goodness of patriotic Americans to fix our problems.
Just as the congress of 1787 was incapable of reform, it is foolish to think solutions will emerge from today's congress. Then as now, a convention of the states to amend our governing document may be our only hope.
How does amending a document that is ignored help anything? A real new convention would try to dot all the eyes and cross all the teas and would look like the European "Constitution" with hundreds or thousands of pages.