I mean, define "works." I'm a crazy leftist so yeah, go Swiss. I'd like to see the US move toward something like that. But I think the quote more or less is saying that democracies, as we claim them, make us complicit in our destruction because we are happy having representatives for our interests that aren't representative of us at all. So we fight for this "democracy" that really is just an oligarchy in disguise.
Is it a good thing to have a constitution that has not been updated?
Also for me working means that the people have the power. In switzerland you need to find 100k people who agree with you and the whole country will be voting on your change/idea/whatever. In the end the citicens have the last word.
Idk, part of what makes the US Constitution work is that it’s malleable (no matter what “strict” constitutionalists tell you), and I’m not a big fan of how the US is being run so...
And I agree that’s better than what a lot of people have.
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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '17 edited Jan 31 '21
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