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Slow change is better for stability and avoiding regression. If you jam something through, it will never achieve 100% buy-in. If you let it progress naturally,
by jimbob45 5y ago
Slow change is better for stability and avoiding regression.
If you jam something through, it will never achieve 100% buy-in. If you let it progress naturally, the naysayers will eventually come around organically.
Granted that’s not why we’re moving at this glacial pace but the benefits certainly don’t hurt.
- int_19h 5y agoIt really depends on the kind of change we're talking about. With this stuff, every year it's delayed is one more year that people end up in prison and with criminal records for the rest of their lives, with no benefit to the society. Furthermore, the states are supposed to be "laboratories of democracy" to run such experiments. If the feds legalize it, any state prohibitions remain in effect. Those states that want to be conservative about it can keep them on the books, and those that don't can move fast to legalize themselves - and then we see what happens. (Although, at this point, I'm not sure there are any states left where the majority public opinion is not in favor of legalization.)