Look, can we just admit that much of the Constitution doesn't make sense? The electoral college is totally wack, the second amendment is ambiguously worded, Supreme Court Justices are appointed till they drop dead AND somebody notices, etc, etc. What's worse is that I'm fairly sure the Founding Fathers, 250 years later, would agree that it might be time for some changes. But we can't, in practice, touch it. Because a bunch of land-owners sweltering in the summer beneath heavy wigs were gods, and American politics is nothing if not an occasional display of ancestor worship. One day, I want to write a negative biography of the Founding Fathers, going through all their peccadilloes and religious heresies and sexual oddities and plutocratic slip-ups and racist hypocrisy. It's not because I think they were bad guys for their time, but because we've got to drop this pretense that they're fit for ours.
