[The_Republican]

Loooooong Article.

[lesser_satan]

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[baa39]

Reagan’s words of 1964 still ring true today, the USA again has a “rendezvous with destiny”...but will we show up for it?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Interesting article, but I disagree with the later suggestion that the U.S. political system should be more like Europe's. No thank you.

[vbmoneyspender]

What was an antiquated and overly rigid political system to begin with (now about 225 years old)

It is amazing to see the cognitive dissonanace in some people. Zakaria spends 25 feet of pixel space talking about the dynamism of the United States and its economy and then opines that it could have been improved upon if only Madison and friends and had made it easier for our government to 'get things done.'

[2ndDivisionVet]

Quite thought-provoking and somewhat reassuring, though alarming, as well. Thanks for posting it.

[vbmoneyspender]

Another thought on this article. It is truly amazing to see how devoutly materialistic university intellectuals are. They think the Constitution is out of date because it doesn't account for new material things like the phone or the computer or the birth control pill.

What they don't understand is that, in the long run, those things ultimately don't count for much when it comes to how people govern themselves. What does matter, indeed what is overwhelmingly important is human nature. And that doesn't change, which is why our Constitution has stood the test of time better than any other.

The secret to its success is very straightforward. It was created by people who (through long study of the past) were intimately familiar with the frailties of human nature and who made it their mission to account for those flaws when drawing up our society's groundrules.

[informavoracious]

Interesting, thought-provoking but uneven article. Worth the read, though.