[TheRealThing]

"Human beings would rather suffer evil, while evils are suffrable, than to right themselves from the forms to which they have become accustomed." TJ from TTJR

Who said anything about being an expert?

The text you cite is a decidedly small snippet of a larger thought that Jefferson was trying to develop, and as fate would have it, one that I have cited on here at least 3 times that I can remember. That larger thought is that we ought not run over familiar forms of government for light and transient or faddish social aberrations. It is much better to tough it out than to demand of what is in this case some 300 million people, that they just roll over on 300 years of normalcy, just so that the libs can develop yet another 31 flavors of gender. I hate it when the best intentions of the founders are slimed in such manner.