[rlmorel]

"...My response to dumdums like that is that they fail to take human nature into account when making calculations for their utopian fantasies..."

Which is part of the brilliance of the founders of the American Constitution...they went out of their way to take the negative aspects of human nature into account.

Of course, it doesn't mean anything if nobody actually follows the Constitution, but hey, they tried.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Indeed - post #26 on this thread enumerates the details.