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American aristocracy could learn some things from the old world
A big American founding myth is that we eliminated the aristocracy from our government, but the real American innovation is making it much easier to join the aristocracy starting as an outsider. Sure, great. A little closer to meritocracy, one hopes.... - aharoni...
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The Democratic Party should join the GOP to counter MAGA
Today* I helped my family move my maternal grandparents back into their home in Altadena, from which they had been evacuated due to the Eaton Fire in LA for over 2 months.... - Skippy8801...
Why does it have to be blue vs. red?
Whatever happened to meeting in the middle on political issues? I am old enough to remember when American politicians were generally more moderate, not so partisan and seemingly unwilling to compromise as they have been recently.... - AskAves...
On the topic of patriotism... and whether Lee Greenwood can still bring a tear to your eye. On the cusp of our Nation's 250th birthday... The following was my response to a $hit-poster in my town Facebook group....... - ballz2dwallz...
Thanks, I super appreciate your expertise here. What's your sense of why this steady increase in power? Is it part of the nature of being human, or the seduction of power, or the speed of getting things done when you have executive (in comparison to deliberating and voting), or a... - zookatron...
Fair enough, this goes back to my first point in my first reply. Obviously managing the American empire is much more complicated than an ICE, but I see that more as a symptom of bad leaders rather than a cause of leadership being hard.... For the next 100+ years, every American gen will be worse than its precedessor
There's a strange American exceptionalism that believes that the US is uniquely positioned to be great forever. Likewise, there's this immaturity that takes it for granted that every generation ought to live better than its parents' generation.... I think polarization is a slippery concept. Congress is more polarized, in the sense that there is less overlap on voting for instance. And the electorate is more firmly polarized, with fewer undecided voters.... The American Ideal Was Real Until We Stopped Protecting It
America was built on the idea that every citizen stands equal before the law. The Bill of Rights laid out clear protections for individual liberty that applied to rich and poor alike.... - Debradrs...
so you are absolutely correct. Yes. A Father's Day celebration was proposed in West Virginia before the nationally promoted version tied to Spokane, Washington.... - Debradrs...
How Father's Day? AI says this. Search Assist Pepperoni was invented in America, likely in New York around 1919, while the pepperoni roll, a popular dish in West Virginia, was created in 1927 by Giuseppe Argiro.... What actually happened on January 6th?: Insurrection frame
The legal record On January 20, 2025, Trump signed executive clemency for over 1,500 January 6th defendants. Some had been convicted of seditious conspiracy. Some had pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers with flagpoles and chemical spray.... - chauncedog60...
I agree with your perspective on voter ID. Why? Because, for what it's worth, since this is the only thing that gives all citizens an equal say regarding the authority we invest in the stewardship of our country, it is everyone's best interest to guarantee the integrity of the... - NewsEveryday...
Donald Trump is UNAMERICAN
So, I listened to the Declaration of Independence Day. And with current events, it suggests we ALL OVERTHROW TACO DJT. This leads me to believe that most of his cabinet have read NEITHER the Declaration of Independence OR The Constitution.... I just found out something that will probably increase the sobriety. Here it is from wikipedia: Although this date commemorates enslaved people learning of their freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation, this only applied to former Confederate states....