Partisanship Is the Problem

Washington, warning against parties in his Farewell Address.

I'm a partisan, and it's an election year so I'm mentally inclined to be uber-partisan this year - but I can still see that partisanship over patriotism is the one of the biggest problems with America today.

2026 Book Club

This post series is here to talk about some of the books I'm reading as I think about the project and study up more on the original framers' ideas, how our government has worked over time, and suggestions people have for changing our government.


Right now, I'm reading:

Who Can Vote?

Voting Good.

I respect the Founding Fathers, and I love the leap they took for humanity when they created America.  But when they wrote things like "All Men Are Created Equal," they weren't talking about me.

Congress Isn't Working: The Productivity Problem

By the numbers, this Congress, the lucky 113th Congress is "the least productive Congress in history."

A Premise

The Constitution was not the first guiding document for the United States of America.

In 1787, the system was broken.

The shape of the Articles of Confederation (our first attempt at a federal government structure) meant a federal government hobbled and utterly incapable of responding to problems.  (More about this in a later post.)