Poll of the Day > Dems and Repubs know what America is

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Both Democrats and Republicans are loathe to admit America is not the idyllic shining city on the hill, but a modern Babylon rife with greed, violence, human exploitation and depravity and that's what America was founded on.

Despite their nasty inclinations and political gangsterism, it is intellectually lazy to argue Trump, McConnell and politicians of their ilk are the creators of our problems. They are the products of them. It cannot be overstated that these people do not elect themselves. American citizens choose, support, encourage and love them as they attempt to ensure continued majority group dominance. History teaches us that such cruelty is not new.

Many of the 85 essays written anonymously by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison that comprise The Federalist (often called the Federalist Papers) speak of dangers to democracy at Americas birth. In Federalist 10, Madison argues that one of the greatest threats is the tyranny of a majority faction - a number of citizens who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, of or interest adverse to the Rights of other citizens, or the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

Of course, mired in their own racism, the Founding Fathers had difficulty grappling with the central place of White Supremacy in the fabric of the country. Even if they acknowledged it (and some did), it was impossible for them to predict the evolving nature of racism on Americas landscape over time, challenges citizens would mount to destroy it, or the unrelenting attempts by members of the majority to maintain what they see as their God-given place of dominance in the country.

(((((((((( Racism does not stand alone as an intractable ill plaguing America. The country is also ravaged by obsessions with entertainment, unbridled greed, selfishness and shallowness. We no longer demand that our leaders possess superior character and vision. We now celebrate mediocrity.)))))))))

Even though Americans say they value education, they do not because the country is intractably anti-intellectual. As a result, our educational systems have crumbled because we have largely divested at the federal, state and local levels. For the most part, Americans have no sense of history and, therefore, continue to pass off fantasies as fact.

Many lies have bled from history to the present. ((((( Republicans across the country paint their opponents as extreme and progressive when they know theyre really status-quo moderates.))))) They constantly play to racial fear. They hold onto lies such as the Confederacys Lost Cause arguments when the revolt was really rooted in slavery. They are silent when armed supremacists and nationalists are dispatched to protect Confederate statues knowing they have always been reaffirmations of White Supremacy.

They push unquestioning support of police no matter how many people they wrongfully kill, because the dark hordes must be controlled. Otherwise, mayhem will ensue. You will be accosted, robbed and maybe killed. White women will be snatched off the streets and your beautiful suburbs will be destroyed.

They have played that card since the Colonies.


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lol

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Good. America have caused more world problems than they've solved, so the dumpster fire is great to watch

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what do we expect to happen when we have undemocratic mechanisms for the country to be held hostage by a minority-elected senate majority?

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For the last 300 years the people of America and the lands therein (so, including the pre-american colonies) have been able to work, drink, and be merry; occasionally partake in their vices, find love, raise a family and in general just go about their days.

That's all anyone really needs - anything else is a complication

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America is not Evil nor racist.

it really baffled me how many people seemingly voted for this ideology of vile lies.

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