Returning to our Founders' revolutionary spirit. Didn't they lay down the path forward?

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Seriously all this has me thinking... what if the Founders' genius was that they created a way for this country to adapt to changing times... and have we truly gotten so far away from that revolutionary period?  The Founders were heavily influenced by very new and at the time very radical concepts and ideas, and it's so weird that Conservatives want complete reverence to their own interpretation of who these men were, but going through the history you realize these men were not that conservative, some of them were quite the opposite - they were radicals, revolutionaries, and truly brilliant men who were going against every damn thing they knew and were taught as boys and they created this country basically out of thin air... it was an amazing period but we've become so complacent and so willing to just let go of that revolutionary spirit they had, and all for what?  This country is falling apart.  It literally has been falling apart now for my lifetime.

I hate to say this but in 1985, when I was born, the country was much happier - much better off in so many ways than it is today.  Today you look at our politics and it's a ing sh**tshow from top to bottom.  Back in '85, you had the two Irishmen, Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill, and they were friends and they talked and they liked one another and they weren't ashamed to tell the press that... and Ronald Reagan, as conservative as he was, did a lot of bipartisan things.  He got sh**t done.  Tip was there with him and they came together and did what they felt had to be done... it was that generation that had produced men that were willing to work hard and not be so petty and selfish and cruel... that World War II generation was truly magnificent... and since then our politics have been controlled and dominated quite frankly, by complete assholes who would sooner set fire to the country than lose any of the power and the money they've accumulated over the years and that goes for these people in both of these parties.

The duopoly sucks.  It just does.

So why are we living like this when the Founders gave us an out?  They gave us room and space to grow, but we've become so used to just being STUCK and TRAPPED into this deep hole we're in.

The 21st century holds so much promise for this nation... but how will we ever get there if we're held back by a system that really is not serving the public good... a system that both parties, progressive and conservative alike, abhor - because it's just. not. ing. working. anymore.