We survive international threats, Sparky. We're America, and we have each other.
And i would
agree w/you Beau, save for the
fact we are an
oligarhy
'
We the People' come 2nd to '
They the Elites'
~S~
Is tribalism preferable, then? If so, we should be speaking numerous tribal languages, and not a common tongue derived from our oppressors in the EU, where many Americans came from. Unfortunately, they wiped out and desecrated almost every tribe on the North American continent in order to institute a Republic of free men 250 years after arriving here on the Mayflower in the early digit 1600s. White settlers decimated their native benefactors who ceded lands to them when Europe promised their unwanted people shipped here with the false premise of opportunity, when a huge series of genocides would face them if they wanted a safe environment in the New World. And genocide they did to establish themselves here. Intermarriage occurred, which was the only way the DNA of some tribes could be preserved. Whites turned their back on "half breeds" whom they regarded as half-human beings, disgraced by being the love children of parents who fell in love with each other over the protests of both sets of parents.
Yeah, you could call us an oligarchy, but it is supposed to represent people from every kindred, and every tribe (except native Americans living on reservations, so conveniently ousting them from their native lands into lands so barren, their survival is nothing short of miraculous were it not for the pittance they receive from the Indian bureau of affairs.
"They" is us, sparky, at least before they got to DC as representatives. There, their skills of diplomacy are challenged by the 360-degree assaults being made on the treasury accumulated beginning in 1914, when it was decided by Congress to ignore the founding fathers' wisdom of never raising taxes against the common man. The common man got rich and too big for his britches, so the Congress decided to set aside the honor of serving the masses in favor of serving international causes such as WWI, and bailing out the lesser mighty of the more mighty in continental and expanded Europe to include those to the north, south, east, and west of the Baltic Sea. Europe liked it because it was like getting something for nothing. So here we are, tax poor like them, with ravenous wolves like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez screaming at the top of her lungs for even more money power so she can be rich like savvy dowager Nancy Pelosi, her idol and former benefactor.
Right now, all of us are drawn into this debate of who's boss? The Founders or the politically ambitious have-nots of the twenty-first century.
And throwing the baby out with the bathwater on every issue has our sensibilities overborne. And we have polarized to such dissention that we are making ourselves available to be confused, which is the perfect ground for interlopers, seeing the flaw, to swoop down on us and insert their dogma on us. That will take more lives than Hitler, Tse-Tung, and Stalin put together
