Among the biggest issues they cite are the amendment process (which makes changes virtually impossible), excessive veto points, the Electoral College, lifetime appointments for Supreme Court justices, a first-past-the-post (winner-take-all) electoral system (rather than, say, proportional representation), and a grossly disproportionate Senate that ensures greater power for the mostly white, more rural small states at the expense of larger ones.
Translation: "This prevents us from changing everything in moments of emotion, and lets those hicks in rural areas- especially the mostly-white ones(we've got to throw race into this)- have a real say instead of being forced to obey us!"
Those things, especially the amendment process, were made that way so it would require deliberation and convincing a good majority of citizens to make an amendment. The number of Senators per state so that large states, who'd already have a greater number of Representatives, couldn't dominate smaller states. It works, and they hate that.
They really are the enemy.
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And on the odd occasion we do pass local or state policy it spends years in court being unraveled.
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