It’s a difficult process, and very, very few make it through. It requires a 2/3 vote of the House and Senate, and then 3/4 of the states have to vote for it. Almost 12,000 amendments have been proposed, but only 27 have been ratified.

The 27th is weird one, having been first proposed in 1789, but not finally ratified by the states until 1992. Usually, there is a 7 year limit on the States’ votes. The previous one, the 26th, was in 1971. The biggest failure between those two was probably the Equal Rights Amendment, which faced a fierce battle by Conservatives, who don’t feel it’s necessary to codify equal rights for women.

There are a number of unratified amendments out there, most of which have been dormant since the 19th century, and will probably never be finished.

It is almost impossible to get an amendment proposed and ratified today. The 2/3 approval by Congress, and then 3/4 of the states, are nearly impossible hurdles in the current political environment.

Other examples of important Amendments were the ones that abolished slavery, gave women the right to vote, prohibited alcohol, and then repealed that prohibition.

That’s fine. You just throw terms around that you don’t understand. You should go to Reddit, they love incomprehensible nonsense over there.

I’m anything but a “MAGA cultist,” and a “Blue MAGA cultist” doesn’t exist. You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about about.

No, the Amendments are additions to the Constitution added by later administrations. The 14th Amendment was added after the Civil War, to keep Confederates from holding office in the Union government, who won the war.

You’re as clueless as American conservatives.

I don’t care where you’re from, all I know is that you are parroting the worst Conservative Propaganda about the Insurrection.

So there were some sympathetic, complicit cops, that doesn’t negate the breathtaking violence that was happening everywhere else.

All you know about it is the very selective coverage by the Conservative Propaganda Machine, which edited tens of thousands of hours of footage down to a few minutes. If you watched the actual Insurrection, which I did from start to finish, you saw plenty of vicious violence against the cops.

Just because you have decided to voluntarily remain ignorant of the truth and embrace treason, doesn’t mean intelligent, patriotic people have to go along with it.

Right after Jan 6, I started posting how important it was to not refer to the incident as a ”riot," or a “coup,” or anything other than an “Insurrection.” That’s the word used in the 14th Amendment, Section 3, which prohibits those participating in an Insurrection from holding elected office. It was important then to characterize it as an Insurrection (which it was) then, and it’s important now.