Jeff AtwoodMar 4

https://chqdaily.com/2017/07/paul-raushenbush-discusses-great-grandfathers-inner-vision-carried-work-forward/

As for the nation’s literature, Brandeis may have been the first .. to refer to the Constitution as a “living organism, capable of growth and adaptation.”

“This approach allows the fresh context of the present to perform alchemy with the wisdom of the past, to offer new ways to make the law and faith relevant and responsive to present conditions,” he said. “Prophetic witness cannot set its gaze backward on a frozen history with an unrecognizable context. Instead, it faces forward, informed by the past, yet determined to bring back vision into the world in the present age.”

This no longer works, unfortunately.. how does the constitution change when it is effectively impossible to amend due to Constitutional Calcification .. only "interpret" through a ridiculously gerrymandered (thanks Mitch M) SCOTUS? https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116115405545619662

Show threadJeff AtwoodMar 4
I don't really see a way out here, honestly. If you do, tell me what it is, step by step. Explain it to me like I'm five years old.
Show threadJeff AtwoodMar 4
I mean, I do see a way out, but nobody wants to hear it. Because, again, remarkable lack of bravery here in the land of the free. Just MHO.
Show threadLuke KaniesMar 5

@codinghorror I’d love to have a call about this at some point, or meet over coffee. I don’t think I understand what you mean, and I’d like to.

I feel existential dread, and I appreciate that you feel you have an answer, but I don’t understand it.

Show threadJeff Atwood
@lkanies constitutional convention. Three countries, most likely.
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Show threadLuke KaniesMar 5

@codinghorror so like an archipelago of blue cities, a hodge podge of red country?

Or just west coast, northeast, and Montana to Florida, each as separate countries?