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================================If you listened to Democrats over the last 10 years even. Everytime they spoke they called us a Democracy...Just something I noticed, don't know if anyone did
Washington is divided because the American people have decided that the federal government has to do everything for them.
American liberfools NOT people !
your brush is too wide bro !
how sad, the liberal disagrees but cant say why, and, it doesn't occur to him that if he cant say why it is becuase he is wrong.dear the Constitution specifies representatives and many other things to define our govt. Get it now? That's why we have what is called a constitutional democracy.
Typical conservative reactionary nonsense.
– more Americans enjoy greater freedom now then at any time in this Nation's history;
Bullshit. Conservatives are just as quick to use the government to do their bidding as liberals are. Anyone who denies that is part of the problem, not the solution.
Bullshit. Conservatives are just as quick to use the government to do their bidding as liberals are. Anyone who denies that is part of the problem, not the solution.
Washington is divided because we have two parties that are so far apart that any kind of compromise is out of the question. The end result is nothing gets done and the country stagnates as the result of the world catches up and passes us by. Now consider that a majority of Americans aren't that far left or that far right. It's like taxation without representation for a majority of Americans.
From where I stand, doing nothing is preferable to doing the wrong thing. For instance, I'd rather do nothing on Immigration Reform forever than grant Amnesty to 20-50 million future welfare-supportive future Democrats.
Senators and Congressmen/women aren't elected to do nothing. Though I agree with you regarding amnesty, we have a lot of problems in this country that need to be addressed. Doing nothing doesn't make a problem go away.
Rare to read a post of total ignorance. Government education done didn't do you no good, Cletus.
And it did what for you, exactly?
(I guess you don't read your own posts)
Only one as moronic and perpetually mundane as you could not decipher when a point is being made with substance and style.
probably no going back.. that's why we have a tyrant Federal government now
SNIP:
BY PHILIP KLEIN | AUGUST 14, 2014 | 6:00 PM
TOPICS: CONGRESS SENATE LIBERALISM FEDERALISM FEDERALIST PAPERS
It may sound pedestrian to point out, but its critical to restate why its so important that our nation is called the United States of America, and not simply America.
The full name emphasizes that the Founders viewed the nation not as one monolithic entity but as a union of sovereign entities delegating limited powers to a central government.
The basic constitutional architecture still remains, and it's frustrating for those who want to augment the role of the federal government in people's lives.
To preserve this balance, the Founders put a number of checks in the U.S. Constitution, most notably creating the Senate, which allows for equal membership from every state, thus preventing states with larger populations from running roughshod over the interests of smaller ones.
The concept of federalism has eroded substantially since the nations founding, in no small part due to those who appropriated the concept to defend the brutal institution of slavery and injustice of racial segregation.
Yet the basic constitutional architecture still remains, and it's frustrating for those who want to augment the role of the federal government in peoples lives.
This month, the issue bubbled up again after the Economist ran a chart demonstrating how much more liberal major U.S. cities were relative to the national average.
Jonathan Cohn, a liberal policy writer at the New Republic, wrote that the chart was a reminder of a fundamental problem with our democracy, one thats baked into the constitutional order. Im talking, of course, about the United States Senate, where the apportionment of two seats for each state can give rural states disproportionate power power that comes at the expense of urban states, the ones with lots of the left-leaning cities.
He went on to note that the power of smaller states in the Senate puts liberalism at a political disadvantage.
ALL of it here:
Washington is divided because it has abandoned federalism | WashingtonExaminer.com
plutocracy?? when we have 50 states with their own govts? 500 hundred elected office holders in Congress and 2 other branches of Federal govt?? Care to think again?
The sound bites are bought and paid for by the Plutocrats (the Koch Brothers are but one example) who buy our so called representatives.
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Washington is divided because the GOP is 90% white and America elected a black president.
Glad I was able to clear that up.
