There is no system that will have good results if it is run by bad people.
We are not just machines that can be manipulated by the proper rules, guidelines and inputs.
We are spiritual creatures who also dwell in the metaphysical reality.
The western world, common law and the natural rights of man were birthed out of a people who believed in very specific things regarding God, persuing the Good, the True and the Beautiful. Metaphysical realities and transcendent truths were at the top of the hierarchy.
The systems of government and law reflected internal maps of reality that corresponded to the Christian world view of reality.
A materialistic people designing a purely materialistic system will not have the same results. You’ll just get the same dysfunction we’re experiencing now. The blind leading the blind leads to both ending up in the ditch.
Trying to impose the old system on this “modern” people won’t work either. The old system worked because it was a reflection of the people. I’m in favor of going back to the old ways but I know it is a temporary fix.
The only thing that will work is the people changing their mind about God, seeking out the transcendent truths of the spiritual reality and living lives seeking the good, the true and beautiful.
The United States needs another Great Awakening, the people need to repent of making personal actualization their god and follow Christ instead. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. All other ways, lies of modernity and the culture of meaninglessness, will end in death.
We are a spiritually sick nation. Degeneracy, consumerism, class and tribal resentment cannot be fixed by laws.
Those are matters of the heart and only God can fix those problems.