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It’s nice we even have video for PID of an actual<\/em><\/strong> threat to the U.S.<\/p>\n

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Do We Need a \u2018New Constitution\u2019 to Protect Democracy\u2122? Berkeley Professor Weighs in<\/a><\/p>\n

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Erwin Chemerinsky, Berkeley Law School dean and author of \u201cNo Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States,\u201d is not a fan of the United States Constitution, which obviously makes him an ideal academic to teach the next generation of lawyers how to practice law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Via\u00a0<\/span>Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n

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No matter the outcome of the November elections, it is urgent that there be a widespread recognition that American democracy is in danger and that reforms are essential<\/span><\/strong>. No form of government lasts forever, and it would be foolhardy to believe that the United States cannot fall prey to the forces that have ended democracies in many other countries.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Although the causes are complex, many of today\u2019s problems can be traced back to choices made in drafting the Constitution<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, choices that are increasingly haunting us. After 200 years,\u00a0<\/span>it is time to begin thinking of drafting a new Constitution to create a more effective, more democratic government<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Signs abound that American democracy is in serious trouble.\u00a0<\/span>Confidence in the institutions of American government is at an all-time low<\/span><\/strong>. The Pew Research Center has been tracking public trust in government since 1958. It has gone\u00a0<\/span>from a high-water mark of 77% in 1964 to our contemporary 20%<\/span><\/strong>.* A poll in September 2023 indicated that only 4% of U.S. adults said the American political system worked \u201cextremely or very well.\u201d A recent Gallup poll had only 16% of Americans expressing approval for how Congress is performing its job.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Especially individuals in their 20s and 30s are losing faith in democracy.\u00a0<\/span>A Brookings Institution study found that 29% of \u201cyoung Americans say that democracy is not always preferable to other political forms<\/span><\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

*These people never ask fundamental questions like: why is trust in government at an all-time low? Nothing is different about this guy\u2019s analysis; he simply chalks it up to some vague failings of \u201cdemocracy\u201d without legitimizing the mistrust, which isn\u2019t fit to be printed in the self-anointed guardians of Democracy\u2122 like the Los Angeles Times.<\/span><\/p>\n

**Here I feel compelled to offer the obligatory but necessary caveat that we don\u2019t actually have a pure democracy. In generic terms, \u201cdemocracy\u201d means rule by the people. In practice, pure democracy is merely mob rule, which is not and has never been a foundation of Western civilization excepts for brief stints of upheaval like the French Revolution \u2014 and we saw how that story ended.<\/span><\/p>\n