re: #37 Nyet

But not foreseeing something that obvious is one of the definitions of inept.

Obvious? Hardly, if you start with the assumption that your electorate is enlightened and will always choose trustworthy and honorable men. The Founding Fathers’ mistake wasn’t in leaving a bunch of holes in the electoral process, it was being too trusting of their fellow Americans and not being foresighted enough to imagine a day when common assholes like Jefferson (or, as we see today, Donald J. Trump) would be seeking to exploit the limits of power, rather than nobly remaining within it. We can argue back and forth about where exactly things went wrong, but at the end of the day, they made an educated guess and left the door open for future generations to fix it if they fucked it up. They did, we tried, but it still isn’t fully fixed because nobody, until now, has been so firmly determined to find all the ways to break it.