Conventional wisdom

For the "cure is worse than the disease" file:

Indiana government should be rebuilt from the base. It's not merely broken — it's shattered. The Indiana Constitution was written when bison literally roamed the state's prairies. Clauses in the constitution are as rare as those bison; it's time to shred the document and write one for the 21st Century.

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That's why we need a constitutional convention.

And that's why not one single sitting elected official should be there.

Keep the rascals out. They got us into this mess, they've demonstrated they won't get us out — and probably couldn't even if they tried.

How? The way the Founding Fathers did it: Select a person from each county, send those 92 people somewhere they can think, keep lobbyists and legislators and bureaucrats away, and have them draw up a new organizational chart for Indiana.

It cannot possibly make things any worse.

Well, yes it could, a lot worse. Those Founding Fathers were charged with merely tinkering with the Articles of Confederation, and look what those rascals did. We have plenty of raswcals, too; they're just not as smart. Constitutions, which provide the foundations that hold up our laws, are supposed to stand the test of time. Read Indiana's and tell me what can't be fixed with an amendment. If I were one of those 92, would you like to to know what I would put in a constitution? Believe me, you wouldn't.