I agree in principal with everything in this outline. The US constitution was written in the 18th century by moderately wealthy to wealthy white mostly educated males, some of whom owned slaves while signing “all men created equal”. As a person who has mostly benefited from the current system I have actively worked and failed to get even term limits codified or to stop outrageous gerrymandering. I’ve failed to generate authentic objective questioning about the size or nature of the standing military industrial complex. I’ve failed to gain calm, logical discussion about systemic quality improvement be it for economic/educational/health meritocracy, environmental regulations — anything.

Let’s use the US southern border security as an example. Where I live in Texas we gain enormous benefit from Latino labor who are far statistically less likely per capita to commit crime, work hard at difficult jobs, and, our “legal” process is grossly inadequate not to mention the US has a illegal drug addiction problem that is funding horrors throughout Latin America (and associated heart rending asylum pleas). Am I for a secure, legal, humane, controlled and stable border? Absolutely! Does the current American process have the structure to generate an adaptive, complex, sustainable, effective solution to a rapidly changing dynamic challenge? No. If the answer is just open the border (as it was pre-1965) or build a wall like the Chinese tried centuries ago (I have hiked that wall 120 kilometers north of Beijing and been stopped and interrogated by a Chinese military patrol for my “safety” then 30 minutes later bought a Coke from a Mongolian elderly and poor woman who climbed up the 16 foot ruins to make the sale) — to these simplistic solutions, give me a break, try to return to cerebral cortex complex system analytics.

The point is, yes, volume, velocity and complexity of change is overwhelming the system. Fear is not our friend, deifying our forefathers to the status of deity in for them and their documents does great disservice to their spirit of intentions. I’ve failed, maybe my goals were just far to small compared to the shift this article proposes.