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I would turn back the clock on all of the unconstitutional "progress" and would repeal a few (but not all) of the amendments.
But you didn't steal that different system.
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Oh, no, the basic system is quite good, no question. I am curious: which Amendments do you dislike?
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I don't live in a democracy, I live in a constitutional republic! And you damned well had better go back to elementary school and learn how to read! What I said was that I didn't vote FOR BUSH, not that I didn't vote at all.
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I left the Bush part out of it. Didn't respond to that.
Belligerence for the sake of belligerence is unbecoming.
My point was that since you don't even vote, it's
no wonder you feel everything's inflicted upon you. You have kind of a passive victim thing going on. But, I hear there's this island in the Shetlands.......
You complain and whine, yet choose not to participate in even the barest avenue of input the citizen has to influence society.
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The alternative being a return to what the founding fathers gave us.
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And yet,
I am the unrealistic dreamer........
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It's really sad that you have such blind faith in government!
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*shrug* It's been pretty good to me so far. Some tweaks, some modifications, here and there. Blind faith,
heck no, but, I trust government far more than I do regular people.
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It is no longer free, progressive or individualistic.
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Maybe not to the extent you'd like, but if things are so irredeemably horrible.......
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But if they're contrary to the Constitution, they're illegal!
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When regulations are contrary, they get reviewed by the Judiciary and overturned. When the courts aren't stacked to the right, politically, that is, and inclined to let anything the President does pass as okay.
What all this has to do with some kid dying from faith healing, I dunno.