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Originally Posted by Guest
We are in trouble, but I think our democratic institutions and the governmental structure established in our Constitution are pretty flexible and can withstand this turmoil. The 2018 elections will be a pivotal point for us.
The racists, bigots, and others whose philosophy is based on hate and superiority have always been here. They now just have a POTUS who empowers them to speak out their hateful message. Currently our government is stymied by partisanship, on both sides of the aisle. We need leadership to bring us together, and that is the farthest thing from what is happening currently.
America was deeply divided during the Presidency of Richard Nixon. We were divided over Viet Nam and other wars. We were most divided over slavery and the Civil War. We've murdered our Presidents, fallen into economic depression, and been at war somewhere in the world far more than not at war during the history of our nation, and yet we survive. We experience. We learn. We adjust. And we persevere.
I am convinced that what ultimately makes us unique in America is a free press. Those who attack a free press so so because they fear the truth. As long as we have people who tell us the truth, no matter how much that truth hurts, we will be able to see our course and correct our course when we need to do so.
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Au contraire:
I agree that our Constitution and form of government provide a sound barrier from total collapse but it continues to be weakened by those who have made attempts to circumvent the US Constitution.
You error when you speak of this President as promoting hate and racism. Where you error is that their are dark forces intent on removing this president spewing lies and innuendo which is very damaging to the nation as a whole.
Indeed we were divided during the Nixon years Viet Nam and the Civil War.
However, despite what you were taught in school the Civil War while said to have been about slavery was really an attempt to vilify the South by publicly shaming them for the slavery that “caused the Civil War”, when, in fact, the war itself was truly and unequivocally a result of northern lawmakers’ attempts to sabotage the sovereignty provided by states’ rights as the nation continued westward to its manifest destiny.
The so called free press , the Fourth Estate indeed is free but it has degraded to the worse sort of yellow journalism and is bent on spinning out right lies in order to get this president removed from office.
This so called free press which is suppose to be a truth teller and watch dog for all Americans has lost all its credibility and that is bad for a democracy.
Finally this president has a deep interest in state rights and if you recollect the states organized the federal government and not the other way around. I believe in state rights and I abhor the attempt by many progressives to have the federal government take control of all things.
total federaal cntrol will damge this nation more than any other one event.
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