We are living through the latest example of democracy eventually failing.

[JackOfNoTrades]

Exhibit B.

So basically a pointless thread whining about perceived grievances.
Check.

 

[otto105]

The guardrails the Founders put in the Constitution to protect America from the well-known and inevitable decline of a democracy still require a moral and thoughtful citizenry. We have neither. Look at this list of reasons given for the decline of the Roman republic:

There Was An Imbalance Of Power Between The Aristocracy And The Rest Of Society
They Broke Into Factions Who Prioritized Their Own Aims Over Their Republic
Ancient Democracies Limited Voting To Select Citizens
Demagogues Were Able To Easily Persuade A Misled Populace
Political Campaigns Were Expensive And Mired In Controversy
Certain Individuals Had Their Own Personal Military
Senators Stalled Vital Legislation With Filibusters
Senators Began Using Violence To Get Rid Of Political Adversaries
Participation In Long-Running Wars Caused Regional Instability
Autocratic Powers Rigged Democratic Systems To Put Themselves In Power
All People Were Free To Live As They Pleased

As the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun. The Founders tried to protect against the inevitable. They understood how fragile a democracy is and how dependent it is on the character of the citizens.

John Adams stated it this way, “Public virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private Virtue, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.

George Washington said: “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,”[6] and “Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.”

Benjamin Franklin said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

James Madison stated: “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical [imaginary] idea.”

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and … their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice … These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”

Samuel Adams said: “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue.”

Patrick Henry stated that: “A vitiated [impure] state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.”

John Adams stated: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

I guess there is something cool about being witness to this shit show as it happens, but it's actually terrifying for those of us with children.

Well, you so-called christian piece of shit.

We’re not a christian nation nor any other.

The Constitution informs us of that.

 

[Rambunctious]

MAGA, come to think of it they should change it to MAWA.

If you are an American I just don't understand what's wrong with being great again... you must admit things are a mess right now not only here but abroad....

 

[Superbadbrutha]

If you are an American I just don't understand what's wrong with being great again... you must admit things are a mess right now not only here but abroad....

Great for who, is the question.

 

[leftwinger]

Great for who, is the question.

once the biggest GDP on the planet, countless inventions to make poor lives easier. The answer is Great for all. If the top dog is sick the whole team is weakened.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

once the biggest GDP on the planet, countless inventions to make poor lives easier. The answer is Great for all. If the top dog is sick the whole team is weakened.

So you mean it has always been great for white folks, MAWA.

 

[leftwinger]

So you mean it has always been great for white folks, MAWA.

i guess you’re right, deeply sighing. It only stands to reason, the ones doing all the work, creating and inventing, will prosper the most.

You should figure out how to get in the game. Quit whining about the 1800s’. No one can do it for you. All they can do or will do is provide you bare bones living if you choose to sit out. Go to work. Become self sufficient. Not from a DEM RINO GOVT care package. That is not the answer.//

 

[boevans]

The black slave experience exposes the falsity of "the ones doing all the work, creating and inventing, will prosper the most."

 

[Superbadbrutha]

i guess you’re right, deeply sighing. It only stands to reason, the ones doing all the work, creating and inventing, will prosper the most.

Well, see that is where the lie is repeated, you are not the only one that is working, creating and inventing.

You should figure out how to get in the game.

We helped start the damn game.

Quit whining about the 1800s’. No one can do it for you. All they can do or will do is provide you bare bones living if you choose to sit out. Go to work. Become self sufficient. Not from a DEM RINO GOVT care package. That is not the answer.//

Sorry that you are mad that we don't accept the racism and discrimination that you want to give.

MAWA.

 

[Rambunctious]

Great for who, is the question.

Better for us all.... just watch the news each day... the world has no one leading but a dictatorship that uses slave labor... China... its time the USA takes back control here and abroad...
We need to put Iran back in the cellar and break them once and for all... we need to convince Putin his best interest is to pull back from Ukraine and we need to halt or slow down this crazy war on fossil fuels...
Let the USA start its engines again because what we have now is not working for anyone no matter who you are.... except an elected politician who is entrenched...

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Better for us all.... just watch the news each day... the world has no one leading but a dictatorship that uses slave labor... China... its time the USA takes back control here and abroad...
We need to put Iran back in the cellar and break them once and for all... we need to convince Putin his best interest is to pull back from Ukraine and we need to halt or slow down this crazy war on fossil fuels...
Let the USA start its engines again because what we have now is not working for anyone no matter who you are.... except an elected politician who is entrenched...

Why do we need to put Iran in the cellar and not Putin or China?

So, are you saying the US needs to be the world dictator?

Again, I ask the question for who because it has never been great for black folks.

 

[Rambunctious]

Why do we need to put Iran in the cellar and not Putin or China?

So, are you saying the US needs to be the world dictator?

Again, I ask the question for who because it has never been great for black folks.

Because Iran is a sponsor of terrorism... the more money they have the more people die.... we must go back to the work Trump had done in bringing Israel and Arab nations back together and working with each other...
Iran hates that and so does Obama for some sick reason... and its Obama calling the shots...

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Because Iran is a sponsor of terrorism... the more money they have the more people die.... we must go back to the work Trump had done in bringing Israel and Arab nations back together and working with each other...
Iran hates that and so does Obama for some sick reason... and its Obama calling the shots...

When did Trump do that? The Middle East was in just as much turmoil during Trump's presidency as it is today.

MAWA.

 

[Rambunctious]

When did Trump do that? The Middle East was in just as much turmoil during Trump's presidency as it is today.

MAWA.

The Abraham Accords - United States Department of State

The Abraham Accords Declaration We, the undersigned, recognize the importance of maintaining and strengthening peace in the Middle East and around the world based on mutual understanding and coexistence, as well as respect for human dignity and freedom, including religious freedom. We encourage...

www.state.gov

Abraham Accords, series of agreements to normalize relations between Israel and several Arab states. The accords, all of which were signed in the latter half of 2020, consist of a general declaration alongside bilateral agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco.

And Biden and Obama pissed it away and funded Iran which a month later Iran attacked Israel with Hamas fighters....
You speak of black and white often... let me tell you something...Obama is Muslim first and African American second... don't ever forget that...

 

[Superbadbrutha]

The Abraham Accords - United States Department of State

The Abraham Accords Declaration We, the undersigned, recognize the importance of maintaining and strengthening peace in the Middle East and around the world based on mutual understanding and coexistence, as well as respect for human dignity and freedom, including religious freedom. We encourage...

www.state.gov

Abraham Accords, series of agreements to normalize relations between Israel and several Arab states. The accords, all of which were signed in the latter half of 2020, consist of a general declaration alongside bilateral agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco.

And Biden and Obama pissed it away and funded Iran which a month later Iran attacked Israel with Hamas fighters....
You speak of black and white often... let me tell you something...Obama is Muslim first and African American second... don't ever forget that...

When did he broker peace between Israel and Hamas?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The black slave experience exposes the falsity of "the ones doing all the work, creating and inventing, will prosper the most."

If Aframs Won't Serve Us, They Won't Survive Us

The upper-class thinks that pride in any other White class is "uppity."

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

We helped start the damn game.

White People Built America. America Is for Whites Only.

Only under orders. Otherwise, you would have sat around doing nothing, as you did back in Africa, and not even being smart enough to figure out what needed to be done.

If Africans had somehow come to America first and never any Whites, today it would be another Somalia or Bangladesh. History has proved that you develop nothing and ruin everything that others have developed. Feel lucky that you have been able to feed off us and been given jobs here, because that won't last much longer.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Again, I ask the question for who because it has never been great for black folks.

In Africa, Black Lives Have Never Mattered

 

[Superbadbrutha]

White People Built America. America Is for Whites Only.

Only under orders. Otherwise, you would have sat around doing nothing, as you did back in Africa, and not even being smart enough to figure out what needed to be done.

If Africans had somehow come to America first and never any Whites, today it would be another Somalia or Bangladesh. History has proved that you develop nothing and ruin everything that others have developed. Feel lucky that you have been able to feed off us and been given jobs here, because that won't last much longer.

Right wing propaganda.

 

[boevans]

In Africa, Black Lives Have Never Mattered

sick brain