Reply #81: Those old guys 200 years ago were smart. [View All]

[Rockerdem]

They set up their preferred rules to the game, and then made it tough to change the core of it. Some tinkering has been done peacefully (direct elections of Senators + women's suffrage being the most important for this thread's theme). But something only half as radical (freeing the slaves) took a civil war.

With you in spirit, friend. But it won't be done in my lifetime. There's always one side that is happy, and they won't be part of the supermajority needed. Why don't we try prohibition again -- it might be easier.