Gratitude

On this day in 1787, the United States Constitution was signed by delegates to its creating convention and sent out to the states to be ratified. Among its many features is a very very steep hill that has to be climbed to amend it, meaning that public will for change is sometimes thwarted because the majority that wants the change still isn't large enough to meet the voting and procedural thresholds for altering it.

Given the results of a new survey outlining how little younger Americans know about the Holocaust, I'm currently quite pleased that the Constitution is hard to change. However smart the generations usually called "Millennials" and "Generation Z" may actually be, their ignorance of history that happened within memory of people still living means you want them to bone up on a few things before you hand them the wheel, and you'd like to make it tough for them to drive the country in the direction they want it to go in the meantime.