The constitution worked pretty well for some time, but that time is over. We’ve been overdue for a constitutional convention for a rewrite suitable today (not 1776) for decades, but now that “dollars are free speech” and “corporations are people”, that won’t be a legal option. Corporations don’t want a constitutional convention. Our politicians require “donations” to get reelected. To get those “donations” they do what their “donors” want. Their “donors” want them to cut taxes and wages. The voters by and large therefore have low wages, and can’t “donate” enough to influence. So the “donors” control all policy, and will until it collapses in on itself Pardons are the least of our worries Good luck getting them to throw out their “get out of jail free” card I’d love to be wrong, please let me be wrong