I try to reduce complex problems to soluble models, and then extrapolate those trends to see if the models fit and therefore can predict real life. To do that I must identify a problem, model it as a system, define the sub systems, functions, and their boundaries, interfaces, and constraints.
The problem I see is our understanding of how our government works. Let's look at that.
Without doing research (this is a close reference to what I'm thinking), goes beyond even that.
Most Americans cling to the words and notions of the Founding Fathers, FFs, as in America's BFFs, without realizing the amount of thought, debate, actions up to and including treason and more, that went into this. I mean, really, actually, empathizing with Paul Revere and Nathaniel Hale.
When we contemplate the awful cost of this, the promise of the Renaissance, the New World (even before the Civil War). How many of our ancestors have fought and died for this! And lest you think this is an appeal to blood and soil, it is not. This is an appeal to our shared heritage as a Nation. That we stand as a beacon for Liberty isn't just a lucky roll of the dice. They died so that the will of the People would be the first duty of the elected officials. Our current elected officials need to be reminded of that.
I'm watching "The Man in the High Castle" right now. Just finished the first Season. Perhaps it is making me think.
A lot of fekin Blood, Sweat, and Tears went into building and establishing this, the greatest of nations. Let's not throw it away even as the greatest of rewards are within our grasp. Let's respect the efforts of those who strived to give us this. I don't know about you but my life is PARADISE compared to my fathers'.
We Need Legitimate Government, not The Handmaid's Tale. The granite foundation upon which this New World was established is spattered with both noble and ignoble blood. We, the People own all of this and all of that, and we must take Responsibility for seeing us through this time, whatever you think of it. It's not a quaint notion that we must preserve this world for our children. To think otherwise is the height of cynicism; we are stewards of this planets and the peoples in it, while we are here. He who died with the most toys didn't really win.
Anyway.. We must come out of this as Americans, together.
In conclusion, although the Founding Fathers defined what a Legitimate Government would consist of, it was not entirely effective for two reasons: 1. We didn't really know what they meant, and understanding it was hard, and 2. we forgot that it is our legacy after all, and we must groom ourselves to be the stewards* of our inheritance (we are spoiled grandchildren due for a comeuppance).
*- There goes my Queen's English with its default sexism, but "bride ourselves to be the stewardesses" wasn't gettin it haha..