Between gerrymandering, faulty or "faulty" voting machines, modern campaign practices that require millions of dollars to run and stick your "branding" to the minds of voters, and even more important, a system that pretty much guarantees no-one can rise to validly compete grass-roots unless they belong to the two parties -- it's nothing to write home about.

That a 200+ year old document is held as some kind of "holy scripture" of governance and that centuries old dead statesmen are seen in a romantic light as "founding fathers" and guiding spirits (paternalism much?), is even less indicating of a rational modern democracy.

This line of thinking is the source of lots of problems. The document has been amended 27 times. It's not infallible.