re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Our Constitution did not foresee multi-billion-dollar international corporations exerting a major influence on political discourse or on the daily lives of nearly every American.

It certainly did not foresee that the USA would develop into the world’s leading economic and military power.

And it did not foresee the Internet.

The Founders also presumed that Congress, the courts and the executive branch would work together in a spirit of cooperation and compromise. They did not expect that one branch (our Republican-controlled Congress) would seek to subvert the Constitutional powers of the executive by adamantly refusing to cooperate with it, and additionally to subvert the proper working of the judicial branch by refusing to consider the executive’s nominations to the bench.

There are no provisions in the Constitution to break such deadlocks, other than the voters exercising their power at election time. If the Fourth Estate were doing its part, it would hammer home the clear fact that our government is not working because one political party has held it hostage because a black Democrat dared be president.