The fossilized US Constitution will be the death of us.

It was a plutocracy by design of the wealthy land-owning, slave-owning "founding fathers" but mitigated by the primitiveness of the 18th century, when the fastest mode of communication and transportation was the horse.

In the 21st century, the ultra-wealthy have the technology to conspire nationally, even internationally, to acquire practically every political office, including the Supreme Court, not to mention the news media.