Comment Re:Nothing is permanent (Score 1) 122
In the current make-up and structure of the US government.
Sure, this bill may pass and be signed by la presidenta, but the next administration might likely pass another bill to weaken it or repeal it.
Very true.
Of course, they could try to make it constitutional amendment to make it harder to water down or repeal.
Won't happen. Constitutional amendments need either 2/3rds of both House and Senate or 2/3rds of state legislatures to even propose one. To ratify a proposed amendment requires 3/4ths of state legislatures or state ratifying conventions.
This of course leads is to what I think may be the Achilles Heel of the United States government. Each new administration and and each new congress can't seem to come up with a sensible plan, then leave it alone for the long term across election cycles.
Also very true.
The way we are going, we are probably going to become an authoritarian regime. When this happens, then maybe there will be some long term planning which might stick, but at what human cost?
Become? We're pretty much there already. And there will be no long term planning from this current circus.