I can't believe that there were people who actively worked on killing this effort and actually succeeded. Talk about stupidly reactionary. In general it seems

I can't believe that there were people who actively worked on killing this effort and actually succeeded. Talk about stupidly reactionary. In general it seems US public policy has suffered since the 70s. There were things like serious efforts for universal health care or metric conversion. These days it's not even imaginable to make a big change in the country.