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Bio1590 posted...

Do you honestly think something like this has any hope of passing through as a constitutional amendment at this time? A significant portion of the country still thinks trans people don't even have a right to exist. It's no different than abortion.

Maybe, maybe not, but either way congress moves slower than executive order. If you don't want thrashing, you need to either limit the scope executive orders or legislate such that an EO for a particular issue couldn't be applied, and the only means of doing either is through congress. So either you accept that change is going to come slower but actually hold representatives accountable to it, or you try to rush change through the executive branch and accept that every 4 years those things might be blown away. You can't have both.

Half the reason we're in this situation is because people aren't happy with the rate of change and see EO as a means of forcing change that the rest of the country isn't ready for. You can do that, but when the rest of the country votes in someone who agrees with them they're going to use EO to reverse it. We've seen it running like this for like a decade plus now, and the only solution is to make representatives commit to something and then vote them out when they don't follow through. That may mean more active participation in primaries and it may mean sometimes voting for the other party, but until people actually put congressional feet to the fire nothing is going to change.

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