Were our founding fathers right?

Our founders knew that grate democracies in the past failed after 200-250 years from greed, power, and money. They saw Greece and Rome fall. They saw that the monarchy in England , even after te Magna Carte, became tyranny without checks and balances.

After the Articles of Confederation exposed the weakness of a decentralized government, they wanted to build a system that took the best of each while providing a checks and balance system to distribute power and leave people as the final arbiter of societal justice. Therefore our Constitution designed a 3-proged system designed to balance itself. The Presidency was a monarchy with limited power. The Senate was aristocracy without the power to judge. The House of Representatives was the voice of the proletariat, with the final budgetary power.

Well, it appears America follows the same human-led history timeline. Since FDR, and especially since Obama's second term, the political process has failed. An unprecedented growth in undisciplined and unfettered federal spending (ion conjunction that all federal jobs are lifetime jobs) has built an "entitled" class of permanent Washington D.C. elite class. This has led to a me first budget and where Washington fells they know what's best for the flyover states. Immediate gratification has led to more spending by every administration, with more spending in the last 18 months than the total history of the country combined. All of this is "sold" on the predication it is what's best for the country and will pay for itself.

So do we need to go back and have another Constitutional convention and figure out the purpose of our government and who really has the power? From my point of view, the government has failed to properly represent the common folk, regardless of party affiliation. They seem to only serve themselves. As Ben Franklin had said: "a stateman represents his statae while a politician represents himself". We have too many politicians.