"Status quo doesn't quite have defenders, but at least people are used to it."

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Ezra Klein on prospects for change.

On the Diane Rehm show on NPR last week.

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1. I hope she said, "status quo" and not "status quote."

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2. Typo fixed.

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3. Always been the case

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.