[icclearly]

This guy went thru the same sort of awakening in 2020 and his video (11 min) explains better than I can how and why the Constitution failed. And why it can’t be revived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZo2pEu3oog

Excellent video.

I'm pretty sure that in the time of Pax Romana, their citizens were 100% certain that they would live and rule forever. Just like so many other societies since humanity walked out of the stone age that no longer exists. England is another perfect example. In the period following the Industrial Revolution when the "sun never set on the British Empire," -- except, of course, until it didn't anymore.

Where are all those great societies today? I'll tell you. They are in the dustbin of history.

Socrates identified one of the big problems of so-called democracy.

That is..........

Socrates’s point is that voting in an election is a skill, not a random intuition. And like any skill, it needs to be taught systematically to people. Letting the citizenry vote without an education is as irresponsible as putting them in charge of a trireme sailing to Samos in a storm.

Just remember. Nothing lasts forever!

[Reverend Wright]

One destabilizing element of mass voting is that competing elites constantly try to use the voting system to seize power.

An inherited nobility can have a civil war for control on occasion, but with mass voting it is a constant feature of the system.

[BroJoeK]

icclearly: "I'm pretty sure that in the time of Pax Romana, their citizens were 100% certain that they would live and rule forever.
Just like so many other societies since humanity walked out of the stone age that no longer exists.
England is another perfect example.
In the period following the Industrial Revolution when the "sun never set on the British Empire," -- except, of course, until it didn't anymore."

The Roman Republic lasted about 500 years, the Western Roman Empire about another 500 years and the Eastern Roman Empire another 1,000 years beyond that.
The American constitutional republic is now 235 years, so by historical standards, we are still quite young.

The British Empire is said to have lasted about 400 years, beginning in the time of the Spanish Armada and ending with the transfer of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
It's peak period was roughly 100 years from Waterloo in 1815 to the beginning of WWI in 1914.

The USA has no serious empire, unless you count small territories like Samoa, Midway Atol or Puerto Rico.
Our one major conquest, the Philippines, was restored to independence after WWII.

The American "world order" or "Pax Americana" is a different matter.
It has nothing to do with "empire" and everything to do with voluntary alliances held together by economic and security interests.
The issue with "Pax Americana" today is whether it can continue successfully with less and less American contribution to it.
As of today, the outlook seems dubious, but nothing is yet cast in stone.

Sadly, we have been unable to repeal the First Law of Human Behavior, which is that weakness provokes attack by bad people, while strength deters war.
When we look weak, we can expect attacks and war, as indeed we are now seeing.