I respect your argument moral and ethical argument. However, the brain dead American population will never sit still long enough to process it.
However, occasionally the light goes on when it comes to money being taken of their pockets.
Are you telling me that Johnson’s 1965(?) Civil Rights Bill was not voted on by Congress?
And are you telling me that no elected officials voted on the suffrage amendment?
Re: your questions in post 99:
1. No, I am saying that when the Civil Rights Bill was voted on, the Democrat South was one area where it did not enjoy approval. Even the yes votes were not so much a matter of conscience as an acknowledgement of an idea whose time as come.
2. No, elected official had to vote on suffrage, but a vote in Congress was not sufficient for its passage. The constitution required an amendment, so the vote was pushed down to the level of state representatives, not Federal ones. At the state level, the representatives are closer to the people. Plus 2/3rds of the legislatures had to vote in the affirmative. Thus, if there was widespread opposition, it could not have survived such a process.
As for the American public, you could be right. But the uprising at these town halls show that there still exists many people who can still think for themselves and who WILL act in their own best interests. And that means there is still hope for the Republic.