Only when progressivism is outlawed, will congress represent the people.
Yeah, that's true.
Deep question: why hadn't Communism/socialism been tried in the ancient world? The Founding Fathers ensconced in the Constitution, a system of government proof against pretty much anything but Alinskyism / "The Long March" through the institutions (e'en though still pretty resistant to *that*, and it took Judicial Review *plus* a central bank *plus* income taxes *plus* universal suffrage *plus* the 17th Amendment *plus* Women's Suffrage *plus* and income tax *plus government schools *plus* mass media to get us there); and I can't help but feel that the Constitution not being proofed against it, is merely because the Founding Fathers hadn't seen it in action yet...
Deep question: why hadn’t Communism/socialism been tried in the ancient world?
For a very good reason. It is a child of the Age of Enlightenment (1650s - 1780s), but more so, it is a *parody* of Christianity.
The atheistic philosophies began in earnest in those times, placing mankind at the center of the universe, yet the King James Bible (in England) and the French Bible of the time permeated these philosophers work.
They hated God, but loved the mythology of the Bible, so tried to co-opt it to their purposes. Broad elements of what is known today as socialism, such as radical environmentalism, their hatred of civilization, the pursuit of the New Jerusalem on Earth, are all corruptions and perversions of stories taken from the Bible.