Rigby5
Diamond Member
Rubbish.I think we are. This country is on a downward slide, and there is nothing that can be done to stop it.
The division is so bad now, I don't think we will ever come together again. Perhaps we need to stop worrying about changing the country and start managing the fall.
We are nearly to the point of civil war. All it will take is the right catalyst to start.
This country is not like it was 10 years ago. Obama's pledge to radically transform the country did indeed happen, perhaps not in the way he envisioned, but we are changed.
We are vicious, divided, hate filled people. I just think this country is done. Her best days gone.
They say history repeats itself, and most empires don't last. I think our empire has run its course. It's only a matter if time before we destroy ourselves from within, or another country invades and takes us over.
The Republic will continue to exist AS a republic long after your great-great-great-grandchildren have lived-out their lives.
Other than foreign provocateur-trolls and wing-nuts on both sides, the vast majority of Americans are Union Men, through-and-through.
Not sure I would agree.
For example, in 1911 with the Philippine Rebellion, some US troops were guilty of waterboarding and were sentenced for it.
These days not only do we conduct wholesale torture, but renditions, drone assassinations, illegal invasions, etc. and no one even cares.
Before 1934, anyone suggesting federal gun control would have been lynched, and now the feds have completely taken over and licensed all weapons. That is insane, illegal, and there is strong reason to believe the republic is long gone.