"Every new generation is an invasion of little barbarians who must be civilized before it is too late."
Do not forget that we are human.
The idea that there is going to be some massive awakening so powerful as to erase the need for Due Process and Rule of Law? The world may awaken and defeat evil, but it will grow sated and begin to slumber. The Constitution was designed to have ways of sounding the alarm to the public and give them tools to bring things under control - but it is not as if the pack-hunting psychopaths failed to probe it for weaknesses.
It's not as though those people will be so completely destroyed as to never again be capable of returning. They will, at some point, and the systems in place need to be designed so that a population raised with them only as legendary mythos can recognize the threat and defeat it.
We should not want to live forever, even if that becomes theoretically possible. Vanity has its limits.
I think you miss the point.
The constitutional crisis is the realization that our current system of government us not able to address the threat environment. It's the realization that simply continuing on in the belief that the problem has been fixed … Will only lead to the exact same problem smacking us in the face twenty years later. There has to be changes to the structure of the Constitution. Simply "doing it like it should have been all along" will fix some things, but not rogue specwar, not media brainwashing (if anything can truly prevent that), not voter fraud and other issues related to it.
There are a lot of things that have fallen into "undefined" territory in relation to the Constitution, and there hasn't been much push to get them into defined territory - which has given courts the power to author law through precedent … and it's a mess. What should be a simple system where you know the laws and whether or not you broke them before you go into court has devolved into a game of poker where you draw your cards and try to force the other players into folding as the cost to stay in escalates.