*sigh*
wonderfully, illustrating my hiatus and reaffirming why it is wise for me to refrain from posting; my comments are taken quickly and far from context.
I'm not "bashing" anybody, I am making a comment based on my perspective. The federal administration of the United States has received a huge amount of criticism from it's own people; the people strongly disapprove, yet they continue to let them go about their merry way.
This has been a continuing trend for the last 6 years, and the voting public even went out of their way to re-elect this man and his government. I'd hard pressed to see anything but either:
A) A general apathy in the voting public or
B) A gross misrepresentation in the associated press, American media, canadian media, etc. etc.
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Originally Posted by emagdnim13 What do you want me to do to stop Bush/Cheney? |
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Originally Posted by RuseOfMetacarpi I'd love you to tell me man, what should I do? |
You know what? It's not my decision; I'm not your little rebellion leader or anything like that.
It's up to you, the voting public and the people of the United States to do something about it collectively. So far, there has been collective apathy.
I'm sorry if some of you took this as a direct personal assault, it wasn't meant as one.
I'm not talking about any ONE of you; sorry to deflate your ego, I'm speaking about the 300 million people as a whole.
Impeach, Rebel, Do nothing; it's up to you as a whole.
So far, the decision has been the latter.
I would like to directly address, the only person who I felt has posted a valuable contribution, and had brought up an important topic, aside from just anger and aggression.
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Originally Posted by Foniac What you have to understand is our government is not a true democracy, but rather democracy through representation. Unfortunately, the way our congress works - congressmen / women can vote any way they please regardless of the choices the citizens they represent would like to be made.
Everyone in every district could write hundreds of letters to his / her congressmen, have protests, and show an overwhelming amount of support for any measure, however there is no actual way to force representatives to act a certain way. |
I see what you're saying, Foniac. So far, from my perspective; I haven't seen much of an onslaught of public opinion towards any consensus. There is some sort of disconnect in the public assuring it's representation it heard.
There any many genuine considerations which could explain this, aside from apathy, but I am not familiar with them. I'm sure there are additional factors in this, but like I said; none I know of.
And ultimately, there is a way of forcing accurate representation. I hate the attitude, because it seems so juvenile and almost borderline-crackpot of me, but I'll state it simply with this quote:
"The rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or the laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy."
-George Orwell
I would also like to state, that I am very sorry if anybody took my post offensively. It was meant as a general observation and not an attack in any way, shape or form. Change takes a long time to occur.
And like it was states before; I'm somewhat limited with a foreigner's perspective.
Also, my hiatus will be resuming with full intensity, so do not bother directly responding to me; I won't be around to read it.
Thanks for the warm, friendly chat.