If only people understood what was wrong from the start, we could get on with figuring out how to correct it all....sadly most will not even look.
True, but I understand why they won't look: it's painful. It triggers that response in our collective amygdalae that drives us the "fight or flight."
It hurts to realize that the document your country was founded on, as great as it was and is, does not do the very thing that so many thousands and millions expected it to do, namely, restrain government. In essence, the social contract cannot work, because the next generation does not sign it, and government doesn't care anyway if it breaches the contract, if it means they can arrogate more power to themselves.
For a long time, I refused to read Boston T. Party's (Kenneth W. Royce) "Hologram of Liberty", because I knew that it contained that basic truth, which I wanted to avoid because it was so incredibly painful.
But after I read Royce's book, Spooner's works, the Anti-Federalist papers, the writings of Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson and many others, I finally, grudgingly at first, accepted the truth that only an armed, educated, engaged and vigilant population can restrain government, and sometimes that requires bloody violence and death, sad as it is to say. You know the Jefferson quote about "the tree of liberty".
That truth, painful as it is, is liberating (as all truth is; my Lord Jesus told us that): since we know that is wrong, we can rebuild. We can tear down that which is evil and repugnant to liberty, and we can rebuild again.
It will require much blood, sweat, and tears, but our granchildren and their progeny will benefit, and much good will result from a (hopefully) limited self-sacrifice of some of our generation.