Done by people of privilege, with political power and the requisite “complexion for the protection, as” the old folks used to say.
Perhaps… instead of clinging to the Amendments like they were some kind of gospel from on high, perhaps we should examine amending them again to reflect the changes and advances that our society has made in the last 200+ years.
Maybe we ought to think about rewriting our laws with the people’s actual well-being in mind; a truthful representation of the actual populace, in a time when ‘citizen’ doesn’t mean “only those who are White, Xtian, heterosexual, land-owning males.”
But of course, that won’t happen under the current admin, obviously… if ever… but it does bear serious thinking about, should we live to see the dawn.
