Yep, well put.
We have seemed to lose the scholars necessary to both read and interpret the Constitution as written.
That means that our education has failed us severely (probably so) and that common sense seems to be a failure of our leaders. The major problem is does that mean that the voters are getting so dumb that they can not elect decent leaders or does that mean that the leaders running for office are so dumb (as to the actual Constitution) that it does not matter who we elect?
I suggest the latter.
Obviously our leaders “knowledge” is a reflection of the people, whose education is a reflection of our “leaders”. :)
Lost in this mutual downward spiral, we’re naturally accelerating efforts to just get the old timers “kilt off”, in order to expedite arrival at Utopia.
Sadly, there is no real resistance in sight, either. I think maybe the internet may be more responsible for that pathetic fact than we realize. We will bitch ourselves to death but never leave the keyboard. :/
The leaders aren’t dumb. They are the foxes in the henhouse. Many of them are evil. The populace? Oh, yeah, they are as dumbed-down as they can be.
When considering America’s future, that fact, more than any other, frightens me the most.