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Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

rafael melendez wrote:

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Daring to disagree is a vital part of a healthy society, analogous to allowing our human immune system to strengthen by learning from exposure to foreign invaders for, in the same manner in which the immune system learns from these interventions, so does our society from disagreements. Hence, it fundamentally helps maintain the integrity of its fabric by guaranteeing accountability and understanding and clearing of its complexity to realize better solutions to problems. Silence this tool and opportunity to invite concealment in a free society becomes inevitable and with it, the establishment of systems of inequity, partiality and general contempt. The level of lack of disagreement is a telltale of things to come and proportional to the disintegration of this same fabric and the weaving of another, cleverly harmonized for public acceptance.
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  • Kevin Karam

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    Aug 10 2012: Rafael, now you know the power the special interests and "money". There is a status quo that must be maintained by those at the top to stay at the top. Perhaps you also realize that we have yet to reform or revolutionize the Mideval Fuedalist system?

    • rafael melendez

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      Aug 15 2012: Agreed. The masses are still being fed cake ( a la Louis XVI), in this case episodes of Dancing with the Stars and discounts at Walmart while our Constitution is attacked and eroded and Congress allows it. We are serfs, we are the proletariat and the majority continues to think this way from the very beginning since the American Revolution. Roughly 8% of the population fought the English, then. The other 92% sat and waited. So, when the battles were over and the country was created, the majority of the population had not known what it meant to have sacrificed for it. Yet, the founders still offered their sacrifices for free to them and gave the people the country. What a mistake that was. It continues to this day where the vast majority completely takes for granted their American citizenship and cares not for understanding the reasons why the country was created in the first place, hence, they allow the same mistakes that their ancestors made of not questioning authority, of not dissenting, of simply existing and allowing their corrupt representatives to sell them off to the corporate and banking interests. The founders must be turning in their graveyards.

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