Subject: Re: Do You Really Think???

Checks and balances, natch. The Founders were pretty smart. Things like the Electoral College and the inefficiencies of a patchwork national system are pretty annoying at times, but they do have their perks...

Yup. We used to think our system was pretty foolproof. Now, we are discovering how much the entire system relied on politicians, fundamentally, being people of good will.

Steve