Achieving big things, like revamping constitutional institutions that no longer serve us, does not necessarily require a step-by-step 50-year plan (or any specified length plan).

We have a 230 year history where NONE of the antidemocratic aspects of our system has EVER been reformed. Here's a breakdown...
http://reinventing-america.blogspot.com/2012/11/do-those-27-amendments-prove-we-can.html
keep in mind that when I used the term democratic... it's in two difference senses... one is allowing more to vote... vs a system where votes are weighed differently... allowing the minority to govern.

When I talk about a 50 year strategy that means a systematic breakdown of the obstacles to reforming our system.. one being changing the amendment formula so it's based on PEOPLE not states. Ultimately the ONLY way to make our system democratic is to abolish state suffrage... the source and that concept is so intertwined with the fabric of the Constitution... like the Articles... it might be impossible to reform playing by the rules.

There's a book written a few years back called the Frozen Republic... and that's what we are. As for: "The electoral college is an outgrowth of inequities that pervade the system.

No sure what inequities you speak of. Is it that the whites in the slaves states would not have much say in the new system?

If one reads through the minutes of the so-called Constitutional Convention... one comes across this little tidbit from Madison... July 19th 1787. Madison argues for a popular vote, but...

The people at large was in his opinion the fittest in itself. It would be as likely as any that could be devised to produce an Executive Magistrate of distinguished Character. The people generally could only know & vote for some Citizen whose merits had rendered him an object of general attention & esteem. There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.