Sounds like you don’t trust the American system anymore. If it’s as bad as all these conspiracy-theories say, it is already too late… You might as well be truly and fully-supporting Trump and his latest comments about what to do with our Constitution.
It works when we, the people, remain in the loop, informed, and active. But that is being subverted by certain actors. Rather than passively waiting and hoping I vote for people who oppose the subversion and I advocate for smaller government with only focused and meaningful regulation where it really is needed.
I support free speech, including that with which I disagree. I don't agree with Trump regarding the statement to which you refer. What was your point in bringing this up? That we should ban speech that you don't like?
lol....
No, this:
I clearly stated my position. In the American System as defined by our Constitution, the people are the ultimate boss. Unfortunately, we've allowed our government to become too large and powerful. Time to prune it back. Hard.
I didn’t challenge your position, only replied why I brought it up. Honestly, I actually agree with the sentiment.
Funny, now that you mention "trust", I received a mailing from the census bureau today declaring that my response was required by law... I generally try to obey laws, so I logged onto the government website, after about a half dozen pages of increasingly invasive very personal questions I finally decided to tap out... I regret that I can't go back and erase what I already gave them (like a security questions for a friggin census questionnaire
). Trust the system (One of the best we got?), not the government?Funny, now that you mention "trust", I received a mailing from the census bureau today declaring that my response was required by law... I generally try to obey laws, so I logged onto the government website, after about a half dozen pages of increasingly invasive very personal questions I finally decided to tap out... I regret that I can't go back and erase what I already gave them (like a security questions for a friggin census questionnaire
I started giving them progressively bizarre answers so hopefully they will ignore my real answers.
No I do not trust our government.
JR
No, you wrongly asserted that I had lost trust in the American system. I have not. I do recognize that it is being subverted from within by something wholly at odds with it and I oppose that change. Passivism fixes nothing.
So I was wrong; years of The Brewery and I’m the only one to ever say such a thing? Wow!
Indeed: I can't wait until we can hear about all these poor people who the Democrats are forcing to vote for the guy who says to tear up the Constitution, steals classified docs, and who's organization was just convicted on 17 counts of tax fraud (but he's a businessman!). We just can't abide by people who are aggressive about wearing masks, after all.
So I was reading this 5 year old interview with an author who wrote a book about an economist who was a major influence on Charles Koch and his many think tanks and lobbying groups. Central to this guy's beliefs was that "for capitalism to thrive, democracy must be enchained." And I think that notion has permeated American thought in many, many ways over the last few decades. Maybe the question here is whether one trusts (or believes in) the American system, or the largely anti-democratic system that Koch and his merry band of influencers have been pushing on the country for decades now.
Very twisted viewpoints in that piece. "The vast right-wing conspiracy" and all of that. Funny how the prediction that:
WWW said:
Just big tech? What about military contractors, or the energy industry, or--I don't know--a certain hotelier/real estate mogul you seemed to think was fit to serve as Commander in Chief?
Yes.
Yes, Burisma and CEFC, too.
Irrelevant.
This thread is nominally about "twitter".....
Thank you. I find it disturbing that so many of my fellow Georgians voted for Walker, a man who is astonishingly ill-suited to be a US Senator, but I'm grateful that Walker will not be representing me for the next six years. And I'm grateful that this $400 million Senate race has finally come to an end.
