Part of the issue is really that we’re on Modern Constitutional Republic version 2.27, when we should be on version 3 or 4 by now. The hero worship of the “founding fathers” has made it difficult to change anything structurally, and the government is creaking under the weight. I don’t know how healthy it is for a large and diverse country to have rule by the metropole with a purely popular system, but the level of overrepresentation of rural voters is a real problem, and we can’t do anything about it. Maybe at a minimum the president should be elected by popular vote.