But our system is set up to prevent us from changing them
So, like families finding ways to live with abuse, all kinds of coping strategies obscure the fact that our democracy is broken and needs fundamental change
Voting reform, Supreme Court and Senate/Congressional term limits, voting rights, redistricting/gerrymandering, for gosh sakes bribery/campaign-funding/insider-trading reform…
Not to mention several Amendments and a bunch of other founding flaws in the Constitution, including probably that it’s so damn hard to amend
We’re stuck with the framework of a 250 year old slave state trying to maintain its hold on world power with a very fragile fading democracy shattered by the return of a feudal #WealthInequality
Thank #Reagan for starting that. The most damaging President in living memory (Trump was just a result)