“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”

Amerika's tradition of stare decicis is a receipt for disaster, a foundation for tyranny's most heinous applications and the process for losing what the wise founders of the de jure States united sought for.

Such brevity, such wisdom.

Sorry -- I should have indicated I meant Basho's comment.
( Not to disparage Mike, but .. y'know what I mean ?! )

I like it. ;-) Good point, Mike.

Unfortunately this could mean that the wise found wisdom only after faulty steps, and that the question phase should be prompted way in advance by starting immediately.