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defacto7

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12. Agreed. We've gone too long teaching the infallibility
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 11:06 AM
Jan 2020

of America through nationalism light. Through generations we've become complacent to the fact that our system can't work forever on the old model. It's been too easy by way of human nature to slowly open the existing loopholes in the constitution, some of which were intentioned, for our stablility to stay intact. We've only been something resembling a democracy for about 70 years and although the movement to proceed continued, the powers that be weren't about to loose the elite mechanisms a republic employed I.e. obscuring facts from the people, dulling the mind, dulling the senses through false security, creating false wealth through debt, all these are a creeping crud on a democracy. Now we are living the inevitable outcome of control and ignorance. The situation is critical and survival of democracy is in doubt. If we don't take control of our government, make changes to our constitution and purge the system of the individuals, judiciary, representative and administrative who keep the nation enslaved to ignorance, democracy will die and the unthinkable will take its place.

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