> The only answer I can come up with is secession... <
The Founders were smart people. But they weren’t smart enough to put in the Constitution a peaceful way for states to secede. Secession should be a very lengthy and involved process, but a legal one nevertheless.
The founders weren't psychic, but they gave us enough to survive and succeed. But no matter what they gave, it would never be enough to sustain a people who were to became self destructive because of their self loathing.
Not unlike a wise parent who builds a fortune to take care of his children after he's gone. But if his children are stupid, narcissistic and lazy, the fortune isn't enough. They will self destruct regardless.
Whatever becomes of this formerly great nation has nothing to do with the founders. They couldn't anticipate consequences centuries into the future.
We're imploding because that's our national obsession.
“The Founders were smart people. But they weren’t smart enough to put in the Constitution a peaceful way for states to secede. Secession should be a very lengthy and involved process, but a legal one nevertheless.”
Even with all the evil in history that preceded the founding, they couldn’t possibly have foreseen the evil of the modern democrat party.