For a while now I’ve been picking up on movements that have advanced from inchoate mutterings to full voice plans and plots. I’m liking this a lot.<\/p>\n
Aside from the already written vital legislation which got stopped, i.e., postponed, by the Republican senators, but can, with a Democratic House and Senate, be enacted, some of these ideas below will move from plans to policies to legislation.<\/p>\n
Oh please don’t give me your cynicism! Instead, read The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union<\/em>, by John F. Kowal and Wilfred U. Codrington III. You’ll learn, as I did, how actual amendments and laws get enacted. Bottom line: they take a lot<\/em> of persistence, often by only one congressperson, go through waves of “we’re almost there!” that ebb, until revived decades later.<\/p>\n It’s a tidal thing.<\/p>\n I’m repeating myself somewhat. It bears repeating.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For a while now I’ve been picking up on movements that have advanced from inchoate mutterings to full voice plans and plots. I’m liking this a lot. Aside from the already written vital legislation which got stopped, i.e., postponed, by … Continue reading