Why are you proud of that?
One of the brand-R talkers (an obscure fillin for Ayn Rand's favorite bitchboy Boortz) was running a July 4 feature this morning. He noted with pride that America has retained the same Constitution and the same governing structure longer than any other existing country. Not true even on paper, but probably close enough if you're comparing solely with Europe. Many Euro countries changed form in 1848, many around 1870, and others in 1920, 1945, and 1989. Plenty of real turnover.

But even assuming it's true, why would you consider failure to adapt as a sign of superiority? If you heard an 80-year-old man boasting "I haven't learned anything since I was 12", you'd think he was senile or crazy. Every human changes his "form of governance" at least once after puberty. We can't survive otherwise.

Of course the real truth is that America has changed its structure drastically since its adolescence, but none of those changes have been written into the Constitution since 1934. All have been done by utterly illegitimate and invalid "court" "decisions", which have "written" a jumbled, insane and incoherent "constitution" that can't be read or relied on. It means whatever the latest black-robed Lesbian Leninist says it means, as of this millisecond. When her hormones surge again, the "constitution" changes its meaning, and you won't know until the midnight knock tells you about it.

Most of those Euro countries have made their changes in a more legal and rational way, writing new Constitutions or marking new Republics when the form changed. You can rely on the written structure to some extent. In recent years the EU has partly overtaken those rational systems with a truly American form of unaccountable wild-eyed lunacy, but its penetration has never been complete and it's beginning to crumble.
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