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My US taxable income is minimal but I will continue to be an upstanding citizen, pay taxes, and VOTE in every election.
I am a patiotic American and love my country and would never give up my citizenship.
I do detest the fascist takeover of the American government, however. (Reference: watch FOX news.)
The government and the country are not the same thing. Ask the older German people about that one.
TQ. I am happy to hear your intent to vote in every election. That is how things get changed.
I agree the country and the government are rarely exactly the same. They, however have some synergy justapos as to the strength of that government visa v its opposition. Since governments, in democracies, at least, are essentially a product of perceived ideas, they do represent, arguably correctly, a perception of some variant of the ideas held by the majority that elected it.
However, This tactic of ideological segregation and degradation by political view or whom one voted for, is a failed one. It is the same psychology that drives class, race and religious vilification and hatred. As its tempo by the opposition in and outside of America has increased, so has the inverse effect of a reciprocal lost of power and trust by the opposition.
It is a time to understand our commonality and that compromise in the extreme of our differences is the only path if a change is to be affected. One defeats falsity with truth not grander and more falsity as in the oppositions failed strategies of the last 18 years.
One who is truly a relative or truly a friend uses those genuine common bonds to persuade a disagreeable issue between a relative or friend and does not attack nor abandon that relative or friend because they can not dissuaded them. If so what does that say about the quality and character of that relative or friend?
There is no difference in those internal and external to America who segregate those they differ with, as a despised group than there is with those groups that are identified with racism, class elitism, religious intolerance or other positions that pit one group against another. You and I know it only hardens the shell and distance of separation until one day there is this fissure separated by an inaccessible abyss.
The Republicans and what ever they represent as an idea for the country now have it all! As such it gives them absolute responsibility and accountability for ALL successes and FAILURES. They have NO excuses that will be viable or acceptable. It’s time to put up or shut up for the Republican agenda what ever that is.
Thought you detest fox news and its right oriented agenda, you must accept its existence and rapid growth is and was born out of a need, real or perceived, by a substantial number of people.
People who believe or think, the main stream media and the main stream entertainment industries, who are today’s “yellow press” that shape public opinion and perspective with tremendous impact, have not given that obviously large group a voice of consideration as to their feelings and views and as such, has made this group feel as though they where not being represented nor respected for their differing views.
Likewise, even the Liberal side feel disenfranchised by the “news media” as it is no longer a reporter but has evolved into a entertainment variety show with a get their first even with inaccuracies and distortions and or in many cases, as at CBS, with out right bias of all types.
One can be a conservative or a Liberal in some areas and moderate or even a liberal or conservative in another. Viewing Americans as being exclusively one or the other is most disingenuous and fallacious. Surely you as an American know the vast majority of us are neither flaming liberals nor burning conservatives but vary in topic, in time and circumstances.
To call the government fascist is easy to say but we both know in reality, Americans, be they Blue state or Red state, will not tolerate any real abridgement of our freedoms any where remotely near fascism.
Sure there are things being done that some see as abridging some rights, as in WWI, WWII, but just as quickly there others challenging them in a proper legalistic way and in some cases winning especially when freedoms and rights have abridged. Where in the world would Gitmo prisoners win the rights they have? Have you really looked at some of the “detainment / expulsion” laws in Europe? Take a look they will surprise you.
Most, unlike you apparently, have not lost hope and confidence that our system of government will assure our freedoms.
Because they know that should that day come, those your lot misjudge and call ignorant trailer trash or worst, those who voted for Bush this time around, will be in the streets and barricades fighting any efforts to deter any assurances of those freedoms with even more zeal and determination than you lot.
To say otherwise is like living in a ghetto of only one’s kind, who are themselves, an isolated un-representative few, far removed from knowing the vast difference other Americans have outside thse enclaves of oneness and kindredness.
This ghetto emphasis on difference companied by disdain and hatred is exactly what has been lost in the intolerance of ideological disagreement internally and externally to America. If it continues the abyss of doom you lot contrive will well beyond an imaginable reality.
How is hating and despising one for thinking or voting differently differentiated from hating and despising one for the color of his skin, his economic status in life or is religion or ethnicity? is discriminates, it segregates , it isolates and it eventually leads to concentration and resistences.
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If a passport is the real issue, Belize will make you a citizen and give you a passport for $25,000 USD. Slam Bam and its done.
That is all.