I'll ignore all the dipshittery below this and roll with your perceived intentions.Mjl wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2023 12:08 am Every thread here, perhaps rightly considering the context, is really negative. So I wanted to start a positive one, this one a pro-American one. Not like the ignorant kind saying it's the best country ever. But both sides seem to hate America these days.
The thing that made me start this was sitting here a bit high, thinking about the shit going down in Israel with the new laws minimizing the power of the judiciary. They don't have real separation between executive and legislative, so if they neuter the supreme court, the coalition with the small majority of votes can do anything they want. And they have no constitution to define what kind of laws they can pass.
Which makes me respect our system of separation of powers. The pieces all having different cadences (2 years, 4, 6, and lifetime) is such a great idea.
Whose was it?
I too, enjoy that we as a nation do try to maintain some semblance of separation of power and do try to prevent any one individual branch of the government from being unchecked by the others. It is an imperfect system but since there is no perfect system I am encouraged that over time, we will continue to make more progress.
Social media has made the problems of this nation look worse than they are. It gives a megaphone to those who are already the loudest and frequently, the least capable of shouting out a coherent, well thought out message. The whiners and complainers now have a more effective way to do their whinging and we all have to suffer for it.
As a nation, we are at a point where innovation allows us to both be more advanced and more lazy, to be more evolved and to be more stuck in our ways. It's a truly odd point in history although when you look back, aren't they all? Every era has their "WTF were they thinking at the time?" so this era of Trumpism isn't truly any more WTF in the scheme of things.
We will continue to make more advances than regressions, just as every generation has done before us. We are not more special or more broken than our predecessors. Overall, I am glad I was born to two Americans on American soil and that I am able to make a comfortable living and provide for my family's needs in this country.
