• MagicShel
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    5 months ago

    I love America. I’m rather less fond of some of the people in it. The land is beautiful and varied. There is so much space here. And the constitution is really special, I think, though not perfect. The biggest flaw is people haven’t been taking politics seriously and have elected unserious people.

    I swore to defend it many years ago. At the time I was a kid just paying lip service to a required oath, swearing to a god I never believed in, but the truth is I do love it and I would fight for it, warts and all.

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      5 months ago

      people haven’t been taking politics seriously and have elected unserious people.

      This is the inherent flaw. We have a representative government that never intended “people” to take politics seriously. Politics was for the landowners.