Your last friend in europe.

Where do you hail from?

@linuxace, you just advanced to level 4!

@linuxace scandi parents, happy childhood in africa, now living in Norway.

Friend? You’re sure about that?

Thanks for the insight doc but I will pass

Which part? I spent a great deal of time training with NATO at Oreland AB near Trondheim.

@Repeat No. But I regard your constitution one of the best documents known to man. Right up there with the Republic, Zarathustra, Decline of the west and Psychoanalysis

But also, thanks for the honesty, doc!

@linuxace Im in the south. Nice to meet you though. Retired mil doc from Kjevik AFB

I prefer the articles of confederation myself. Constitution was a coup. Didn't get ratified by enough states as was demanded by the articles.

@DrSammyD details. The document describes a system without a need for a feudal lord.

It barely lasted 87 years before it should have broken apart. And now it's not even observed any more.

That is unique.

And to some extent, that idea flows into my Chevy Tahoe.

It is America in its essence. And it is dying.

@linuxace If you trained at Ørlandet, I bet you spent time in some magnificent acoustic surroundings. 😉

Hey, you only have to be a citizen for 7 years in order to run for a congressional seat. Sounds like you have more respect for what our government should look like than most of our elected respresentatives.

We made it through a civil war. We won’t die and we won’t have another

@linuxace I suspect that exact composition would make them pick me up at JFK and ship me home. 😄

This election will play out through the constitution, if it is missing a price or two of the puzzle it will get filled. Just as we have done from the beginning

Being an american now sounds somewhat revolutionary.

America didn't survive the civil war, its boarders did.

Yep. You would be on AoCs list pretty quick.

😄

@linuxace But, ya, I do sometimes think that americans should be reminded what their founding fathers fled from. Because america is steaming full speed ahead into the same bloody mess that created the declaration in the first place.

Please note that when my kindsmen boarded the boat, they did so as humiliated subjects of the local Lord. When they stepped off the boat, they were free men.

Try to imagine what that flag meant to them?

I would say it is about half and half. Half are trying to slow it down and the other half are trying to speed it up. Worried that is going to cause a civil war. People have been hoarding guns and ammo for the last 10-months (but is really been going on for about a decade.

well, you know Jeffersons words...

Yep liberty tree, blood of tyrants and partriots. All that jazz.

If the tree of liberty is thirsty...

It seems to be.

I'll take a single individual with a vested interest in my productivity vs a 150 million headed master who won't spare 10 minutes each to even know the voting record of the people they're electing.

That's why many of the founders didn't want popular elections.

Trolls

Its a dangerous thing.

Hamilton was right. we should have had a monarch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NnCbkIowDw

There are a lot of people that go singing to the polls to vote for their own destruction.

sent you a song