How did the U.S. reform cult-like, Fascist nations Japan and Germany after WWII?

[hunter]

8. Both nations emerged with constitutions lacking some of the flaws ours has.

Furthermore people were exhausted by war, grieving their losses, and willing to accept new approaches to government.

If I was repairing our own constitution I'd eliminate the electoral college and significantly reduce the power of the senate.

Culturally, I'd discourage the romanticizing of rural and semi-rural lifestyles. There is NOTHING romantic about factory farm pork, poultry, or dairy products, there is nothing romantic about fracking or coal mining, but these industries have far too much political power because of unequal representation arising in the electoral college and senate. Rural votes have more weight than urban votes.

Traditional U.S.A. anti-intellectualism, much of it arising from anti-intellectual religions, is another problem. For any progress to occur government must be aggressively secular. Anti-intellectual religious beliefs cause a great deal of pain, suffering, and death in this nation, and it's not just the Evangelical Christian religions of the radical right. The left has its own versions of destructive anti-intellectualism, often dressed up as some kind of spirituality.