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Thread #145700 Message #3373013
Posted By: Stringsinger
06-Jul-12 - 06:13 PM
Thread Name: delusional american politics
Subject: RE: delusional american politics
Politics has always contained delusional elements.
I am proud to be an American because I think the Constitution is a masterwork of government even when it contains flaws like not recognizing the Equal Rights Amendment for women or in it's earlier stages, allowing for slavery.
Getting an amendment that prohibits corporations from masking as people would also be helpful.
We have a great document to be amended and allowing it to grow is one of America's strengths, a flexible Bill of Rights to be honored and of which to be proud.
Whether politicians honor it is another question and when they don't, to their detriment as public servants (which is all they are), they eventually will be recognized for their greed and power-hungry motives.
It is not a Christian document despite that ignorant propaganda that prevails in the GOP.
America is the home of free inquiry and the potential to explore ideas that are not censored or censured. We must be on guard against creeping fascism through oligarchy or as Chomsky puts it, "Plutonomy and the Precariat".