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Originally Posted by Tralls
Civil Disobedience is seen as anti-American, discourse is anti-American. Liberal thinking is anti-American, Democrats are labeled Communists or Socialists.
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This country has a loooong history of civil disobedience, and it prides itself on such, and I think it should. One could argue that tangible change has manifest itself through civil disobedience in America more than in any other country in the world. It also has a long history of dissident dialogue. Its not perfect, and no system is, but its been a tangible progression. Woman's suffrage and their subsequent right to vote, african americans moving from cotton fields to corporate board rooms, latin americans in the White House Cabinet. American history is unique among nations; it is a young country in the world adjusting and adapting to its growing pains. One of the central themes in the US Constitution, and the reason for its greatness today, is in its edict of civil rights and the importance placed on the individual.
Freedom of the press, freedom to assembly, freedom to bear arms, freedom of speech. For all it's warts, there is no other country in the world, now or in past history, that has offered its citizens the breadth and scope of civil rights and freedoms that America does.