Hey Gordon,
>> An amended constitution that eliminates the electoral college and allows
>> for direct election of the prez, for starters.
>
>I can't see how this would begin to address the fundamental
>problems of liberalism, especially the inevitable capitalist
>plutocracy that results from it. The major stakeholders would
>simply alter the methods of control to adapt to the new version
>of the game. Meanwhile, they would continue to promote the
>happy delusion that we can have class without class war and
>without the imperialism, poverty, ignorance, racism, sexism,
>witch-hunting, and other pathologies which class war engenders.
I agree. I didn't mean getting rid of the EC will solve all our problems. It would only be a symbolic improvement.
>> And outlaws handguns, of course :-)
>
>If a Constitutional Convention is held, probably the Second
>Amendment is not the only part of the Bill of Rights which
>will go overboard. After all, we've got to suppress drug
>use and pornography too. And God knows what else. See
>above.
That was just meant to tease Jordan.
Brett