[aquila48]

“Nope. No flaw in the system. The Republican Senate didn’t have to confirm her, and it shouldn’t have. GOPe invertebrates are the flaw, not the “system.””

The invertebrates got in via the “system” - did they not? In fact many of us voted for them and promoted them during the elections.

And we the people are definitely the crucial cog in the system, so perhaps we the people are the problem, or as that wise frenchman once said - “people get the government they deserve.”

[FredZarguna]

Right, but remember, in context the article is talking about a problem with our government and not the polity. The original design of the political branches of the government is still sound. What is unsound is entrusting elections to people who know more about deflated footballs or the Kardashians' latest escapades than they do about civics 101.

The Founders did not imagine an electorate as profoundly ignorant as the one we now have.