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Originally Posted by Skerlnik
Oh, no, the basic system is quite good, no question. I am curious: which Amendments do you dislike?
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12th Amendment, 16th-18th Amendments, and 20th Amendment.
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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.
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And because you left the Bush part out of it, you falsely accused me of not voting AT ALL.
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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.......
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See above. I said that I didn't vote FOR BUSH, not that I don't vote! Damn it, get it right!
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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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You really do have piss-poor reading comprehension skills, don't you? Now, show me where I said that I don't vote (as opposed to saying that most Americans don't vote).
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And yet, I am the unrealistic dreamer........
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You are.
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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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Definitely blind faith.
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Maybe not to the extent you'd like, but if things are so irredeemably horrible.......
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They will continue to be irredeemably horrible until people stop voting for Democrats and Republicans.
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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.
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You are so full of crap! The judiciary very often makes decisions that run counter to the Constitution itself and has been doing so ever since Marbury v. Madison.
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What all this has to do with some kid dying from faith healing, I dunno.
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It has to do with whether the government has the right to dictate to parents that they must force their children to be subjected to medical procedures.