[Mortimer Snavely]

Here's some more "pedantic BS" that you will probably find difficult to read and even more difficult to understand. Like most writings of worth, the entire document can't be reduced to a ".... For Dummies" version, so it's pretty much gone out of fashion in the USA as folks have become more and more incapable of precise thought and articulate diction:

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed."
--- Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1776

[Consort]

Here's some more "pedantic BS" that you will probably find difficult to read and even more difficult to understand. Like most writings of worth, the entire document can't be reduced to a ".... For Dummies" version, so it's pretty much gone out of fashion in the USA as folks have become more and more incapable of precise thought and articulate diction:

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It is admirable to study and respect the past, but it's not healthy to live in the past. Any quote or concept, no matter how profound, is pedantic if it is not understood in the intended context. The "....For Dummies" version is the vernacular of the day and may be the only way of keeping the concepts of the past alive in daily discourse.

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The quote, loosely interpreted, says changing "City Hall" should not be taken lightly or done in haste; and that people in general will endure the status quo rather than fight city hall, but when city hall exceeds its due powers, then it can and should be replaced.