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Our governmental type was an experiment.  I'd guess a lot of the FFs had serious doubts it could last, they wrote as much, some of them.

The FFs feared pure democracy about as much as monarchy, and maybe more.  Nothing like this had ever been attempted, not even in Greece back when.  And it was unique in the world at the time.  The European monarchies no doubt sneered at it, and were thankful it was "over here".  They reacted rather strongly when France started a kind of republic of course.  The French attempt obviously failed quickly, and badly.

They are on the Fifth Republic now (and not doing all that great either).  

I think we're still in the experiment phase, and it's interesting we've lasted this long, but at some point, voters know they can elect politicians who will pay them off, and that happened a while ago, hence our burgeoning national debt.

Aw yes. Pride of Waldo, Ohio.

Basically, a hot dog in disc form.

Caramelized,teriyaki glazed spam, scallion scrambled Evetta Farms eggs, asadero cheese, cilantro, hoisin, sriracha and hashbrowns rolled up crunchwrap style. $2 cheladas today

So, we have:

Spam
Sausage of varying kinds
Hotdogs

All basically mystery meat, no?  We could probably add ground beef, which you can get as 85-15, or 93-7, or 80-20, or even 70-30.

Love that place. 

A couple of years ago, we took some friends there on our way to Columbus. They weren't sure about eating fried bologna, but once they had it, they now want to go back. We will drive down on occasion on a Fri or Sat evening just for the hell of it. 

Nothing, but it's easily altered to behave like a machine gun.

which would be breaking the law

FFS....we evolve.  The whole world evolves. 

Civil war...caused by slavery that was imported here by the Europeans.  uhhh, WE were Europeans back then, lol And half the country rejected it from the get go.  Actually, more than half rejected it because only a few of the original 13 had slavery.  slavery was legal in all 13 colonies - the south had far more because of their reliance on agriculture America whipped slavery....160 years ago !  Racism...taking a little longer but we're getting there...much slower. 

Women have had the right to vote for over 100 years.  Some states were earlier.  I'm not even sure most even cared about it at the time.  Can you imagine how much trouble it had to be to vote for the average rural American? you're argument was that it was too much trouble to vote.....ffs

Sure, Europe has a lot of the policies and things that you'd like to do here....only after a massive war that killed tens of millions of people and reduced some areas to rubble.  We must have had some really fabulous leaders at the end of WWII because instead of putting in some bullshit reparation's like WWI we helped them rebuild. kind of...but we still have a massive military base in Germany and over 50,000 troops stationed in Japan, so there's that Massively successful.  And we even wrote a lot of the new formed countries constitutions. 

Yes, my idea is simply an evolution.  And yes, I'm nitpicking some of your points.  You seem awfully combative over this.
Aim small, miss small.  No matter how badly a county is governed in my idea, it only adversely affects that county and not an entire state.  So there's another plus.

Love that place.

A couple of years ago, we took some friends there on our way to Columbus. They weren't sure about eating fried bologna, but once they had it, they now want to go back. We will drive down on occasion on a Fri or Sat evening just for the hell of it.

I looked them up out of curiosity. Cheap eats!