For people demanding the ACA be scrapped because of initial glitches, know your history. [View all]

[Tommy_Carcetti]

This country was rife with initial glitches.

For the first 15 years of the United States' existence, it had a constitution called the Articles of Confederation. It was a disaster. It didn't work. It took a while to fix.

You could argue that even after then, glitches remained by the Constitution allowing slavery and not counting persons held as slaves as full human beings. Or not counting Native Americans. Or not guaranteeing women the right to vote. Or allowing state legislatures to choose Senators instead of the people. Those were glitches that over time needed fixing. Arguably there are still glitches to be worked out.

Everything, and I mean everything, begins with glitches. You ever make pancakes? You know how the first batch are often runny and misformed?

All these people hanging teabags from their tri-cornered hats and talking about how much they love history and the constitution, yet they don't actually know jack shit about history if they are honest with themselves.