Chile votes overwhelmingly to rewrite constitution from Pinochet dictatorship

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Chile has voted by a large majority to rewrite its Pinochet-era constitution, scrapping the text in favour of a new draft to be written by the country’s citizens.

After a year of anti-government protests, an early count of Sunday’s referendum results showed around 78 per cent voted in favour of the change, sparking mass celebrations on the streets of Santiago with singing, dancing and firecrackers.
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The USA will also rewrite its outdated Constitution as the younger generation takes the reins and rightly so.

Our Outdated Constitution

Why is the nation so poorly governed? This is the question that we address in our new book, Relic. What we show is that the fundamentals of an answer can be traced to the Constitution—which, for all its admirable qualities, imposes a structure of government that has long been outdated, and is ill-suited to modern times.

Congress is right at the center of the nation’s modern-day dysfunction. As a decision-maker, it is inexcusably bad. It is immobilized, impotent, and utterly incapable of taking effective action on behalf of the nation. A common refrain among today’s cognoscenti is that polarization is to blame—and that, were a more moderate brand of politics to emerge, Congress could get back to the good old days when it did a fine job of making public policy, and all would be well. But all would not be well, because the good old days were not good.

This approach to governance may have been fine for the late 1700s. But that era is long gone, and it isn’t coming back. Within 100 years, the nation grew to fifteen times its original population, stretched all the way to the Pacific, and was developing explosively into a modern industrial society—generating countless problems along the way, from rapacious monopoly to tainted meat to unregulated drugs, that the founders never anticipated and their antiquated government was never designed to solve. It was already a relic of the past.

https://www.hoover.org/research/our-outdated-constitution
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The disjunction only got worse with time. In the last century, American society has continued to change at a frenzied pace, driven by stunning technological innovations and an increasingly complex and globalized economy, and giving rise to a mind-boggling array of vexing problems that weigh upon American society today. Terrorism. Pollution. Inequality. Persistent poverty. A crumbling infrastructure. Intense international competition. A broken immigration system. Skyrocketing debt. And much more. What we need is a government that is up to the challenges thrust upon it by the modern world. But what we have is a government designed in 1789—for a primitive world nothing like our own. We are prisoners of the past.
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And on top of this, the right wing is a oppressively regressive faction that will be relegated to the dustbin of history.
 
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Cinnabar said:
The USA will also rewrite its outdated Constitution as the younger generation takes the reins and rightly so.
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PC Identity Politics in the Constitution. :palm:

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Cinnabar said:
And on top of this, the right wing is a oppressively regressive faction that will be relegated to the dustbin of history
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Im old enough I have heard you fucking morons predict that for the last 40 years. Youre a brain dead fuck stick.
 
Bigdog said:
PC Identity Politics in the Constitution. :palm:

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I can see it now... "We the queers of the people's republic of stupidity will make everyone the same and as a result everyone will be miserable humorless pricks just like us"
 
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