Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
I too am enamored of tradition. I'd scrag the 16-18th ammendments and push power back to the states.

But it will not happen. A more or less Euro-style social democracy will happen.
Since America is so exceptional, let's be ambitious and envision Europe becoming an American-style socialist democracy. If not us, then who?

18th Amendment repealed already.

16th Amendment repeal: what are the benefits? What good comes from disempowering the federal government (empowering state governments is not even a corollary)? If we're gonna cancel all federal debt, I would prefer it to be in the process of shattering plutocracy and increasing federal intervention.

17th Amendment repeal: it's rare that I find a document that in so few words demolishes a notion in so many ways.