Discarding prior votes, bypassing them ...
I am starting to have seriously enough of people who are immigrants being so ungrateful, so scornful, so direspectful and so blunt towards their welcoming countries.
It's allowed in the US to an extreme. It always has to be.
My problem is when people keep talking about "change" but want to bypass all the processes everyone have agreed on about "change."
It's
not that hard to start the Constitutional Amendment process, and it's been done before.
The problem is that you have to convince a good 2/3rds of the American public to really get it at least rolling.
And what bothers me is how just because someone can't get 2/3rds to agree, they want to bypass that process.
Heck, they can't even get 50%, or blame the wording or other political games.
As such, the attitude is, "oh, well the votes of these people, as well as earlier super-majority votes, don't matter, only ours counts today, and only these select portion of people."
I'm still scratching my head on the "real minorities" comment awhile back, "dictating" who "real minorities" are.
IAmerican have perhaps the biggest purchasing power on the planet
Well, that's actually starting to change.
Our time has passed as the world economic leader, and it's sad how it's happened.
China is the new super-economic power and soon-to-be superpower.
And trust me, they don't give a damn what people think, they just do what they want.
Iand also an attractive power due to their culture and their country.
The United States of America has
never been well understood by most nations and their peoples.
I don't sit here and lecture other nationalists about what's wrong with their countries.
But yet everyone wants to do the same of the US, and
solely look at what's allegedly wrong with the US.
The US was founded to "be different," and I'll die before I'll see our processes torn down by people who don't want to respect those who came before them.
The fact that you refuse to acknowledge what has been established by the founding fathers of the USA tells a lot about you.
It's not even that, they can disagree and discard.
It's the fact that people don't bother to actually read them, which is why they don't respect them.
If Fox thinks his views are original, he's hardly alone.
He would find great comfort in many aspects of the Federalist Papers, among others.
He would also find comfort in the discussions on the "evils" of capitalism that the same founders had.
After all, the British East India Company was part of the "root cause" of Americans troubles in the second half of the 18th century.
We've
always had this debate so it's nothing new.
At the same time, the founders realized that farmers weren't about to fight for their land and then give it up in some sort of social combine.
After all, although capitalism can be evil, the "social contract" is not guaranteed with any form of government.
And farmers showed how capitalism drives initiative and earning your keep.
It was an interesting debate that raged on both before and after the
Constitution was passed.
It's a debate that continued on into the federal banks that were build, and destroyed, at times by various administrations.
But Fox doesn't know this because he has not bothered to read that 250+ year debate.
ISomeone who has been given a citizenship in another country, should stick by the rules and not behaving like an obnoxious pathetic hippie communist.
It's not even that, he's free to say what he wants.
But it does reflect
rather poorly on his character that he does not even bother to research why he has his freedoms in this country.
Even if he disagrees in the end, you cannot get many people to listen unless you actually speak the same civics they do.
Unless, of course, you just go the "popularist" route, which has worked for many other countries at times.
Ironic that W. is often compared to Hitler, when W.'s approval ratings were nothing like Hitler's.
Says something about Americans in general, that the President is often disliked, quite openly, by a significant chunk -- if not a majority -- of Americans.
IOh we already know that you prefer Cuba and Iran, then if you are so happy why don't you go live there?????
Well Iran is partially our fault, and Iraq as well (although other countries had a strong hand in Iraq too, especially after '91).
But blaming the US for everything that goes wrong only goes so far, and at some point, you've gotta build a nation on more than rhetoric.
II will also make a note that since Chirac forbid and banned in 1995 the defense and concealed weapon permit in France, the number of houses being robbed rose up significantly, same comment for aggressed older people.
People think banning guns will reduce violence in the US.
By the US' very nature, it will not, we are a violent nation in general.
We always have been, we always will be.
We have more of a mix of creeds, cultures, religions and views than any other nation on earth.
The overwhelming majority of the time we find ways of dealing with our differences using our established processes.
But sometimes people just take matters into their own hands.
IAmericans are far to be that anti democracy if they have accepted and welcomed you as one of their citizens.
If America wasn't a democracy, you would never have received the American citizenship.
And yet, even if he would disagree in the end, he sees no reason to understand civics.
He promotes a popularist platform, and one that has 0 technical details in implementation.
Wanting a democracy is easy.
The hard part is implementing it so the majority doesn't override the minority viewpoints on a regular basis, let alone shift every few seconds.
It doesn't take long for a simple majority to vote away their own individual rights, and never see them again.
That is what the US Constitution was designed to prevent.
The founders knew things would go wrong, people would be harmed, but it was designed with a balance to make them temporary when they happened.
That's why many of us still call the US the 400+ year old "experiment."
We don't know if it's the right thing, but we do see two things.
We have the greatest, most broad base of citizens.
And we have set of balances and processes that strive to balance all the voices, both past and present.
As an unrelated, side bonus, our own military has always respected the will of our civilian leaders.
That's why the US is one of the few nations in this world that has never, ever -- not once in its entire history -- had it's a military call the shots on anything.
