Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
The United States of America is both a constitutional republic and representative democracy (Dante claims this to be so, because some here deny this reality). What is it about this fact that some people do not understand, fail to grasp, seek to deny? Why do some engage in this denial? Is it an ideological stance/defense, a political tactic, a mental tic?
How is it that during Dante's visits here @ USMB through the years many a thread here have been hijacked with shouts and battles over as simple an issue of 'what from of government' or 'what form of political structure' do we have? This speaks to ignorance and denial in the general population of a supposed 'exceptional' people.
If we do not know and cannot agree on what form of government and political system we have, how the heck are we exceptional in the positive sense?
oh yeah, we are a federation too
How is it that during Dante's visits here @ USMB through the years many a thread here have been hijacked with shouts and battles over as simple an issue of 'what from of government' or 'what form of political structure' do we have? This speaks to ignorance and denial in the general population of a supposed 'exceptional' people.
If we do not know and cannot agree on what form of government and political system we have, how the heck are we exceptional in the positive sense?
oh yeah, we are a federation too