The constitution is too rigid which hinders social and political progress in my view, e.g. the gun law was designed at a time when guns were needed to defend territories often. That should be repealed now.
I do agree with that part about the constitution. People always try to keep laws and other such things that the founding fathers wanted, but I find that to be a very invalid reason to keep something going. This is a different world than it was in the late 1700s, and the founding fathers are dead. We shouldn't be making laws based on what dead people want, we should be making them based on what live people want. Although, if you were to say that around here, there would be a tremendous uproar about how you hate the founding fathers and you're unpatriotic.
I do believe the second amendment has its uses in today's world though. I think it should stay. Every citizen that is of age in Switzerland owns a firearm issued by the government, and you'll find that their crime rates are relatively low. I also believe that citizens should have the right to own guns to protect themselves from a possible future tyrannical government. While I have that belief, there are two problems with it: the government will always have more weapons than the citizens, and firearms have to be registered with the government. If the government were to become tyrannical, and there were uprisings cropping up all over the country, who do you think the government would go for? The registered gun owners.
The system doesn't take care of its people, especially the sick and disabled, it's all about money money money which is something I hate as a socialist.
I LOVE YOU! I'm a socialist as well (well, a libertarian socialist), so I totally agree that this power that capitalism has over people to make them want more and more money is anything but healthy. All the government cares about is their precious military because it aids in getting them and their corporate masters more power and money, so they take funding away from other programs that desperately need it in order to fuel the military even further.
Oh, and this stereotyped fear/hatred of communism or the left wing is very scary in this day and age.
There isn't quite as much a fear of communism anymore (that was more Cold War stuff), but people have been clamoring about how Obama is a socialist, and that's become somewhat of a scare word. However, I can almost guarantee that people who actually believe Obama is a socialist and think that socialism is evil don't know what socialism is at all.
And I believe the news is heavily censored and it's hard to get news from outside the USA?
Yes, the vast majority (something like 80 or 90%) of mainstream American media is controlled by just six corporations. With numbers like that, you won't get a lot of real information. That's why I'm looking to procure some alternate media sources.
we are moving from a christian isolationist country into a globalized athiest country.
Tsuyu's right. We are definitely not becoming an Atheist nation. I wish we were, but we're not (I'd prefer an Agnostic nation, but Atheist would be good enough). However, I do believe that we are moving from isolation to globalization. That seems to be very obvious to me.
America is not even close to Atheism, thanks to the internet we do find there are more American Atheists than we thought, but they are still low in numbers, and it gets scarier the further south you go, I am in Kentucky, middle of the country basically, and I dare not say I am an Atheist for fear of Social Stigma, in New York? Pretty common I hear, down in Alabama? You're dead.
I'm so glad I live in California (as opposed to all other states, not necessarily all other countries).
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America, which just so happens to be a christian nation.
WOA! I take issue with that. What ever happened to separation of church and state? Nothing, that's what.
