Let's Step Back: A Commentary

I agree with Edward Rodriguez in his opinion post titled, Let's Step Back. He points out that our current system of government could use an upgrade. Like an aging computer, it's using the old software system and keeps getting jammed up and frozen, which doesn't allow for any work to get done. Ok, pardon my computer puns, but it makes sense. Our government is not acting like a well oiled mechanism that is actually working and doing any good work at all. We need to reform the way our government is set up, and to do that we need to pull out and analyze the Constitution and see if it fits the vision for the people of this country currently, not people from hundreds of years ago. I think to start we need to change our voting system and I agree with Edward that a direct democracy would be a wonderful way to do it. It would put the power back into the hands of the people of this country, where it belongs.
We have grown so much as a country throughout our history, and it's only been through major movements like the civil rights movement and women's rights movement, that we've been able to get things changed for the betterment of this country.  But we aren't done yet, there's still more work to be done. It is incredibly frustrating as a citizen to watch how our political parties behave. Our system is so rigged right now, everything is so tense in government, like a balloon filling with air, it's eventually going to explode. They act like a bunch of jerks. They just bicker, fight, and point fingers. It's actually quite childish. I like Edward's metaphor of our government being like an arena, because it is an arena, The Re-election Arena. And like the gladiators who fought in the Colosseum for the Roman's amusement, so too do our people in government fight. Yet, from what both Edward and I can tell, the American people are not amused. Not at all. It's sad to say, but politics have really taken a nose dive in this country and it's only getting worse. When are we going to see that we, the people, need to be the parent and tell the officials of our government that we don't like the way that our system is running and that it's not running. I think it's time for another major movement. What do you think?