I remember glancing through it many years ago but I will take your advice and add it to my reading list. I also don't mean to criticize you in any way. I respect your many writings on this forum.
But lets say that I have then gone through and thoroughly read the Constitution. Will this give me trust in our current system which I and many others believe to be completely taken over by the elite and oligarchs? I absolutely truly believe that our founding fathers did not account for things to ever become this corrupted by money and power. I unfortunately believe that our system will never be able to dig itself out of this mess and that it's essentially a failed experiment.
I always keep coming back to Einstein's following quote:
"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."
