January 03, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
In order to
understand the great impeachment charade,
it’s important to keep three facts about the
strange bird known as the United States
uppermost in mind.
The first is that the US is the ultimate law-based
society, one whose structure derives entirely from a
single four-thousand-word document created in 1787. The
second is that while Americans think of the Constitution
as the greatest plan of government known to man, it’s
actually the opposite: a grotesque pre-modern relic that
grows more unrepresentative and unresponsive with each
passing year. A pro-rural Electoral College that has
overridden the popular vote in two of the last five
presidential elections; a lopsided Senate that allows
the majority in ten urban states to be outvoted
four-to-one by the minority in the other forty; lifetime
Supreme Court justices who can veto any law at variance
with an ancient constitution that only they understand –
it’s a broken-down old rattletrap in need of a
top-to-bottom overhaul. Yet it’s so thoroughly frozen
that structural reform is all but unthinkable.
