Also good to try to think around the line of where "good faith" goes rotten. Balancing the need to imagine a better world with whatever Panglossian statements of magic about how the world is the best of all possible that can be imagined.

The entire American political aperatus, including everything bad about it, operates entirely on an assumption of good faith that is the ultimate problem with making any progress in the system as established. It was written into all the founding documents because the elites wanted to keep power, so