..it's always better to institutionalize their strict numerical advantage.

Yes, being lazy about polling the countless guesstimates of 'Why', I simply assume that, whenever some piece of legislation appears ludicrous, too Draconian even to pass, or be enforced - save via some neo-Con-stitutional Convention first convening -

It's almost sure to be about our futchah: All-Repo Forevermore.
Most of these 'landmines' are about performing the removal-of-bed-slats-to-build-the-tunnel, as in every Stalag flic. As with abortion: no need to acually reverse Roe V. - simply render it [link|http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/index.html?blog=/mwt/broadsheet/2005/12/27/abortion/index.html| moot] \ufffd l\ufffd S. Dakota, and the usual suspects within the usual primitive areas. ("6000 yos." are the very def'n of 'primitives', I wot.)

Well, the information on each of these ploys is very-soon out there, but Elimidate appears to attract more eyeballs. Off-hand I see no remedy for such easy and effective slogan-endorphins. Only detachment.
Unless Demos break all tradition and actually coalesce? Sure..