Think about this one...
What if they chose a language other than English to be our new national language? And set forth that all of our forms and tests would be in this language, you needed to speak it to have a job and actually did something about what having an "official language" would suggest?
I would just learn it. And be happy we finally agreed on something. The reality is, they could make Swahili our official language and everyone would care about as much as they care about it being English.