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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Our country is not our government, if thats how you think, then wow, we're worse off than I thought. America's strength is its people, always has been, always will be.
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Now I'll get into the real idealism, but our country certainly is our government, or more to the point our government is our people. That's the essense of representative democracy. The people, through their elected representatives, govern themselves. If those elected representatives are not doing the will of those who elected them, then the electorate should elect someone else.
Sometimes I think the biggest crisis facing this country is that we have bought into the mindset that we are governed by others rather than accepting the responsibility of governing ourselves.
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