If the American public genuinely has grown weary of democratic governance and wishes to experiment with Fascism, they should pursue this goal by amending the Constitution rather than disregarding it.
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Yes. Australia, too. Fascism is perfectly compatible with our Constitution, but it gets disregarded anyway...
The requirements for successfully passing an amendment make the prospect extraordinarily implausible.
IDK, if the 18th got passed then anything is possible with the right elevator pitch.
No way. The 18th Amendment was passed in 1917, at a time when prohibition was a politically popular subject, and there was substantially greater cooperation and amicably between the parties. Today's political landscape looks nothing like what existed in 1917.
To be clear, an amendment needs 2/3 of both the House and the Senate to pass, and the support of 3/4 of the state legislatures to be ratified. There is virtually no possibility in the present political landscape that any issue proposed would secure the necessary support to succeed.
(In 1918, AU tried to pass an equivalent and it narrowly failed by a few 10s of thousands of votes)
"Online Safety" is arguably more popular now than temperance was then. Throw a few bones each way on cultural issues, and romp it home.
There's no chance of securing the necessary support. Even if a miracle happened and 2/3 of both the House and Senate supported it, there's no way in hell 3/4 of the state legislatures would support it. Perhaps you're not fully aware of the cross-party animosity that exists in the United States. And an online security amendment would be highly contested, with push back from every privacy group, and every civil rights group in the country. It's just reasonable to be believe 3/4 of the states would go along with this. It's absurd proposition, really. Amendments aren't some easy thing that can happen with a smile and an "elevator speech". And for good reason. An amendment about a topic as controversial as online safety is not something that has a reasonable chance of passing Congress, let alone 3/4 of the states. You'd have a better chance of winning Powerball (odds 273,000,000:1) than getting an amendment passed.
