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Originally Posted by Greg B
Agreed but that's no excuse.
In the U.S. we have something no other country in history has had, the right to change things immediately. It's not like it's a big mystery we constantly fuck things up sometimes and do things right another. ......................
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The danger there Greg is that is not, in actuality, good for the US - it's the complete opposite and can be extremely costly in both ecomomic terms and in lives.
On rights to change things.. na, the US is not alone. Even where I am now which can be regarded as a "third world country", - there is far more "democracy" and "rights" - some of which may appear to go to extremes in protection of individual rights.
The government here can be removed within 30 days if that is the desire of the population. If the government take any action which is remotely regarded as "oppressive" - they go.
On elections, they prob have among the most "respectful" elections on the planet and very little stabbing the opponent in the back on a agenda. Police or any other govt agencies who may carry weapons, are not permitted within X distance of any polling station. The school teachers organize and monitor the school children to count votes and rarely is there a problem.
Law enforcement may not raid homes in the middle of the night since this violates an individual's right to sleep whether he be a drug dealer or arms trader.
Personal rights/choices are inviolate and come before all else.
I'll add this one for amusement... There was the concept that taxes should be collected. This was thrown out and one of the reasons being... a tax authority employee would then be able to read a tax form and since the data in the tax form is the personal business of each individual, - there are no "rights" for revenue employees to violate the rights of citizens by seeing their personal financial information. Again, personal rights/choices are inviolate and come before all else.
Bottom line... US is a wonderful country and got loads going for it. I'm no expert or authority on anything, but smells like the problem starts at the top and the word "serve" has been eliminated from govt. Who knows, but if that were to continue over a period of time, folks will soon get very pissed off and start acting. Even worse, if they see their country being economical screwed by small groups of individuals who clearly have no genuine interest and will have departed from office when the shit hits.
BTW.. Don't have any "sway" one way or other as to what political persuasion they are - they are all kinda useless and appear to be lacking any objective. Among them, little doubts there are many genuine folks and more than capable, - it's a matter of pulling them from the swamp and not basing "winners" based on the size of electoral budgets, media bullshit or who is best at back-stabbing. Honorable men don't back-stab.