What is unique to the US is their civic religion with the saints of the founding fathers and the reverence of the documents themselves. Most modern countries rewrite their constitutions but the US is stuck with theirs because they worship it.
Many other governments have a better structure, but that isn’t the point of what I wrote. Maybe the US Americans can write something new that is even incrementally better and it would be a positive. I was born and raised in the US but have left it behind.
Most modern countries rewrite their constitutions but the US is stuck with theirs because they worship it.
Most modern countries organized themselves as constitutional democracies a lot more recently, though… it makes sense there’s less sense of tradition around it. UK and Netherlands are big exceptions, but most of Europe have constitutions that either go back to the mid 19th century or even the 1990’s for the eastern bloc…
Maybe the US Americans can write something new that is even incrementally better and it would be a positive.
The US has amendend its Constitution lots of times, though. It’s really only the last 30-40 years deadlock has become such a norm, and we’re seeing globally this problem is happening… I’d contend it has way more to do with all of those countries embracing neoliberalism and that ideology starting to die rather than government structure. And UK/US were the first in on that mess, so it makes sense they seem to be the ones floundering the most right now.
I dunno, I’m also an American that moved and started a family in Europe years ago, and while living here hasn’t improved my estimation of the US that much, I have definitely been disillusioned of the popular internet opinion that things are much better here. We have very similar structural problems and no political will to fix it.
I do not think things are better in Europe. I would never look to Europe or Europeans for inspiration. I would not be welcome in Europe. Not sure why everyone assumes this from my comments. Just because something is bad doesn’t mean that there is something better that currently exists. Describing a problem is the first step to a solution, it isn’t simply to imply that somewhere else has it better. Especially because the USA goes out of its way to destroy any alternative to itself and its system with a huge monopoly of violence and nuclear weapons.
What is unique to the US is their civic religion with the saints of the founding fathers and the reverence of the documents themselves. Most modern countries rewrite their constitutions but the US is stuck with theirs because they worship it.
Many other governments have a better structure, but that isn’t the point of what I wrote. Maybe the US Americans can write something new that is even incrementally better and it would be a positive. I was born and raised in the US but have left it behind.
Most modern countries organized themselves as constitutional democracies a lot more recently, though… it makes sense there’s less sense of tradition around it. UK and Netherlands are big exceptions, but most of Europe have constitutions that either go back to the mid 19th century or even the 1990’s for the eastern bloc…
The US has amendend its Constitution lots of times, though. It’s really only the last 30-40 years deadlock has become such a norm, and we’re seeing globally this problem is happening… I’d contend it has way more to do with all of those countries embracing neoliberalism and that ideology starting to die rather than government structure. And UK/US were the first in on that mess, so it makes sense they seem to be the ones floundering the most right now.
I dunno, I’m also an American that moved and started a family in Europe years ago, and while living here hasn’t improved my estimation of the US that much, I have definitely been disillusioned of the popular internet opinion that things are much better here. We have very similar structural problems and no political will to fix it.
I do not think things are better in Europe. I would never look to Europe or Europeans for inspiration. I would not be welcome in Europe. Not sure why everyone assumes this from my comments. Just because something is bad doesn’t mean that there is something better that currently exists. Describing a problem is the first step to a solution, it isn’t simply to imply that somewhere else has it better. Especially because the USA goes out of its way to destroy any alternative to itself and its system with a huge monopoly of violence and nuclear weapons.