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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
america is doomed. either people don't realize or they just plain don't care that if an elected leader like POTUS breaks the law and congress won't, or can't, do anything about it then they (the citizens) are the LAST line of defense for the constitution. It should be every citizens personal obligation to remove the current government when its not working anymore, just like it says in the constitution, but the majority of 'citizens' we have in this nation today are as morally and ethically bankrupt as are the politicians. If President Bush told america at the state of the union address that he's suspending the constitution due to a national emergency crisis, most citizens would just roll over and whine like babies.
I repeat, america is doomed.
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I don't think America is doomed, to be quite honest it is always darkest before the dawn. I think the people will wake up when it is necessary. Sometimes something has to be taken away or threatened before truly appreciated. Ideally, I wouldn't want it to be our rights and liberties but if that is what it takes........
You also have to remember that America is very centrist by it's nature and when we allow the penduulum to swing too far in one direction the people have always moved it back.
It's what happened to the Dems and it's what is happening now to the GOP. The radicals and far Right took over and there are enough moderate GOP that are going to start splitting the party more and more. Same as what the Dems. have gone through.
Historically, the generation following the one in power leans more toward the opposite direction of their parents. Hence Clinton after Bush, JFK after Ike, Ike after Truman, all the way to Addams and Jefferson.
The only thing that concerns me is that right now there is no compromising and the Radical Right refuses to give on anything, which worries me that they may play with the penduulum and try to hold onto power using any means necessary.
If that happens though, I don't see the people rolling over, I see a 60's radical type revolution happening. Noone believed the Boomers would do it, and had you told the people in the 50's what was coming they would have laughed..... and I see that type of struggle coming if things do not change.