Message from @Kriegfox

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2019-01-10 23:48:09 UTC  

The Founding Fathers saw a lot of things and prepared for a lot. Their wisdom gave us nearly two and a half centuries.

2019-01-10 23:48:10 UTC  

The problem is we've grown lazy. We decided to hand off our children to government indoctrination camps. Allowed people to marry the government as their provider.

2019-01-10 23:48:21 UTC  

if we can not rebuild on the principals of the founding fathers afterwards, then, we've already lost, what would we be fighting for?

2019-01-10 23:48:29 UTC  

But eventually, there comes a point where it's no longer sustainable

2019-01-10 23:48:32 UTC  

Expected someone else to take care of our families.

2019-01-10 23:48:49 UTC  

You are looking at the FF as the ideal. When they themselves did not.

2019-01-10 23:49:22 UTC  

im looking at the constitution as the ideals

2019-01-10 23:49:24 UTC  

What is best for the people and the nation? That's what their concern was. And what ours should be. The Constitution, etc is not our idol, it is our tool.

2019-01-10 23:50:08 UTC  

Honestly reminds me of the roman empire. breaks up into a number of different nation states.

2019-01-10 23:50:14 UTC  

Also... Isn't our voter turnout like 30% or less?

2019-01-10 23:50:20 UTC  

I believe the constiution and the original ideals should without a doubt still remain the basis of the renewed republic

2019-01-10 23:50:30 UTC  

We have become too successful, no system is perfect and eventually will crumble

2019-01-10 23:51:08 UTC  

Nothing is watertight forever

2019-01-10 23:51:26 UTC  

So many constitutional amendments about equal rights, elections, slavery

2019-01-10 23:51:33 UTC  

But they have found ways around it

2019-01-10 23:51:49 UTC  

No slavery? Okay, then we have apprenticeships

2019-01-10 23:52:29 UTC  

Sure, we vote for the House, the Senate, and the President. But look at the system of voting. Horrible abuse and corruption. Look at Miami and Broward.

2019-01-10 23:52:47 UTC  

You can't really believe those are the only two places. They're the ones who got caught.

2019-01-10 23:53:27 UTC  

that stuff should constantly be audited in my opinion

2019-01-10 23:57:31 UTC  

I mean dude, USSR had elections. China has elections. North Korea has elections.

2019-01-10 23:58:35 UTC  

i think their definition of an election is even worse than ours

2019-01-10 23:59:18 UTC  

Direct democracy may have been good in ancient Greece for example. But look at how big their countries were. 30,000 electors at best.

2019-01-11 00:00:22 UTC  

It was good for the time

2019-01-11 00:00:22 UTC  

If we were a direct democracy, you and I would have died in a detention camp a long time ago

2019-01-11 00:00:37 UTC  

In a country that had 30,000 electors, probably not

2019-01-11 00:00:53 UTC  

Now look at the population

2019-01-11 00:01:24 UTC  

convervatives do not have the votes to live in a direct democracy

2019-01-11 00:01:27 UTC  

Things change

2019-01-11 00:01:34 UTC  

In a small one sure

2019-01-11 00:01:38 UTC  

In a big one hell no

2019-01-11 00:01:44 UTC  

And we live in a big country

2019-01-11 00:02:10 UTC  

I'll use China as a comparison since it's the one I'm most experienced with.

2019-01-11 00:02:28 UTC  

Can you or I become president in the US? No. We need connections, money etc

2019-01-11 00:04:17 UTC  

What do you need to become president in China? Appointment by the CPC Standing Committee, who is elected by the National People's Congress, who are elected by lower People's Congresses and so on down to the smallest level at the neighborhood district or village

2019-01-11 00:04:31 UTC  

In other words. Money and connections.

2019-01-11 00:04:43 UTC  

You have to be a party member to do anything in china

2019-01-11 00:04:50 UTC  

thats no an election

2019-01-11 00:05:04 UTC  

they give you options that fit their needs for power, not your needs

2019-01-11 00:06:02 UTC  

A member of one of eight parties

2019-01-11 00:06:09 UTC  

Yes, it's a multiparty democracy

2019-01-11 00:06:19 UTC  

right, as long as you are communist