And then what? A vacuum gets filled by something else. We do need to reexamine some of the archaic ideas just like its writers thought we should and would. It’s short-sighted because we’ve hung onto old words for so long we can’t even agree on what they mean. Jefferson has some good quotes on how expecting laws then to apply to a future society is ridiculous. And yet here we are…
And then we re-write the thing to include pretty sensible constraints, such as 20-year terms for SC justices, proportional representation in the Senate, no fucking assault weapons outside of the military and perhaps law enforcement, etc.
And then what? A vacuum gets filled by something else. We do need to reexamine some of the archaic ideas just like its writers thought we should and would. It’s short-sighted because we’ve hung onto old words for so long we can’t even agree on what they mean. Jefferson has some good quotes on how expecting laws then to apply to a future society is ridiculous. And yet here we are…
And then we re-write the thing to include pretty sensible constraints, such as 20-year terms for SC justices, proportional representation in the Senate, no fucking assault weapons outside of the military and perhaps law enforcement, etc.
Grant all 50 states independence. Let them reemerge into whatever new nation or nations the individual states want to form.
Dissolve the states.