How Best To Succinctly Describe What Is Wrong With America's Government.

It's an anachronistic inadequacy.

I meant to go short here. But that new line of mine comes from a post I made last night, on my FB wall. Where most of my output goes. I started off with the following observation:

Our government is too bespoke for a certain time and place. The late 18th early 19th century, for the slave economy of the victorious former Brit North American colonies. And here I add. Yes. They did set up a government that in theory, was capable of reform, to avoid the kinds of repetitive civil and other domestic wars, that plagued the British Islands for centuries. And less than 80 years in, the US had a major, ugly, bloody civil war of it's own.

And back then after the war, and ever since. The nation has failed to fix the shitty government, that was designed for a specific time and place, where slave owning and anti slave states could agree to a framework for a functioning national government. Which arguably yet functions. But in lots of ways, badly. And seems to, if not makes something close to another civil war inevitable? Could lead to a dictatorship. A mean, ugly and stupid, government led by a figurehead who sees all there is as believing to them. Like a nightmarish, cartoonish version of the monarchy the colonies rebelled against. Never mind, that by the time of the Hanoverian kings, the divine rights of kings was a thing of the past, in Britain, at least.