Kyle Hasselbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> People are either so dead set against it that there's no talking to
> them
``There is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of
success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating change
in a state's constitution. The innovator makes enemies of all those
who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is
forthcoming from those who could prosper under the new.
Their support is lukewarm partly from fear of their adversaries, who
have the existing law on their side, and partly because men are
generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they
have tested them by experience. In consequence, whenever those who
oppose the changes can do so, they attack vigorously, and the
defense made by others is only lukewarm. So both the innovator and
his friends are endangered together.''
-- Niccol� Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532
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