There are two types of people: those who enjoy and embrace change and those who don't want it and don't like it. Today, lots of people hate it and, by association, just about anyone or anything that has anything to do with it.
Usually, the people who hate change have it pretty good. Even if they don't, they're comfortable in their status, their job and their beliefs just the way they are, thank you. To them, change is a threat.
It's unlikely Jefferson foresaw what his "all men are created equal" concept started. For 220 years, abolitionists, suffragettes and freedom marchers have built on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights a sweeping equality that he probably never dreamed possible.
Standards have changed, certainly, but not necessarily for the worse.
I met a Navy pilot aboard the carrier Kitty Hawk a week ago who happened to be a woman. I don't know if VMI would have been her cup of tea, but if she'd been able to go there I'm certain she could have coped - even if VMI's standards weren't quite up to her own.
