Bill Maher said it best.... | |
"In this country, at a bad convemience store, you have over 50 choices of chewing gum. You have 2 for president...."
I do want to point out that as an Italian American, my Nonnona(great grandma) immigrated to the US from Italy in 1896, and was able to raise 12 kids and pass on a great future for her descendants. The melting pot what was made this country great, gave us it's identity in the fledgling years.
Sure, somewhere along the way it was trampled on and abused like an awful lot of great priveleges and rights our forefathers set up in our Constitution. Unfortunately, it seems the constitution is used more against us these days, especially in our criminal justice systems.
The declaration of Independence needs to be revived and used again, a few words tweaked to have relevancy, and then "implemented" by a group of American Pioneers....... I think that is the only way we are going to see any real change....a major upheaval and change of the way things are done. The constitution was made to allow for changes as humans changed in time, problem is we have lost site of that. If we can't effect change through peaceable means, the constitution mandates that we do it another way.
Our form of Democracy is not a true form, in that we all don't get 1 voice for one vote, we use the Electoral college. There has never been one single government in the history of "civilized" man that has not failed and undergone radical changes, sometimes many in the course of its identity as a nation. Who are we to kid ourselves that ours isn't gonna fall prey to the same thing, as history shows a funny way of repeating itself over and over??? A civil war in this country is not too far a stretch, and might even create the impetus to effect positive change. Even the most fertile of ground needs to be burned now and then for future yield.
The lack of caring, registered, informed voters in this country is appalling, and is what I think to be the actual cause of most of our problems. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is ultimately concerned with themselves first, then others. It is too easy to have everything spoon fed to us as a society...I am guilty of this myself, and would seriously question anyone who claimed otherwise. The reason is from the very first quote by Bill Maher, and my allusion to civil unrest as the catalyst for change; 2 stinking non choices for pres.....the lesser of two evils is never a choice!
It has been done this way for so long now unchanged, that only a radical effort will shake the foundation enough to illict some common sense and management of our serious problems facing us as a nation.
One other thing, our fate as humans is not different from that of the earth we inhabit. Our global environmental issues may force the change much, much sooner if we don't do something soon. |