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If you mean sanctioning literal genocide, torture, common theft, and human slavery, then no I am not interested in that 'kind of stuff'.
Do you even realize the nature of your government. What it does, what it is doing and what it will do to you?
What sort of laughable moral justification do you put forward in defense of your support of an empire as bad as that of Nazi Germany? Is it to keep you safe? Is it to keep your children safe? Is it so those naughty terrorists don't pop out from behind a hedge and shoot you full of bullets?
Or maybe it is to protect the environment, or to protect the poor, or to save us from global warming.
Do you realize that government has never kept you safe, has never protected the environment, has never helped the poor. It only pretends to do these things to have you morally scantion its existence.
Your streets are unsafe at night; your parks dangerous to be in alone.
Your cities are filled with smog and pollution; your rivers with disease and carcinogenic chemicals.
Your poor people are still poor; there are more poor people than ever, and more slipping everyday.
If your government does none of the things you entrust it to do, and all of the things you entrust it NOT to do (such as invading countries) then how can you continue to justify its existence?
Without even considering the fundamental contradictions in the existence of a government in a supposedly 'free society', it is only a simple observation that government does not perform the tasks to which it is assigned and to which it owes its very existence AND YET YOU STILL SUPPORT IT?
You know the United States is the wealthiest country in the World right? And you know that no single person can change the entire government overnight. People criticize the United States government like we can change what's happening.
If we wanted to change pollution/smog/etc, we would never be able to. There will always be that jackass that doesn't care. I'm saying I care about our country, but I'm 16 years old, and I can't do anything about it.
There's no point in telling me/this community that our Government is a failure, when clearly, we are the most powerful/wealthiest country in the World. Most of this community is under 18, and cannot vote for changes to be made.
WE did not decide for George W. Bush to go invade Iraq for absolutely no reason. There is no progress in blaming it on us, the people who had no say, no vote in it. Bush went to Congress, and asked for a Declaration of War. You should criticize those people, and not us.
I don't mean to pick you out Sythe, but you have such a pessimistic opinion of our country, and completely close-minded. I'm sorry but I don't agree with you.
Obama '08




















