tspikes51

No problem. The idea that America is one of the most (if not the most) advanced democracy in the world was actually presented to me by my American Government professor, who, in fact, is of Arab origin (origin, not descent). One thing that makes a democracy advanced is obvious: time and experience. America, as we know from history, is one of (if not the) oldest democracies in the world. Therefore, we have had had more time to develop than other democratic governments. The point that my professor made was that America is at such a state (because of the amount of time that it has existed) that overthrow of the system would be almost impossible because no single party could impose something that would cause a majority to want to change its form. The majority would just remove that party from office.

I know that many people would like to think that this is false (which is what angers me), but it's the truth. Our government has many faults, but it's not that bad.

I can't think of a major empire (if you really want to call America that) that fell in less than 500 years (give or take 100). So, if you do the math, that leaves us at least another 250 years. "Empires" don't just fall off the map, it's people let it happen.

Maybe if we would pull our heads out of our asses, stop hoping for our demise, and get to fixing things we could hold out for another millenium. It's time America stopped bitching about the way things are and get shit done.

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