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WASP
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I don't think it is accurate or fair to blame a whole generation for the failed social engineering of LBJ's Great Society. The country in which we live is a direct result of the well-meaning, but disastrous policies of the War on Poverty, War on Drugs and all of the other over-reaching federal programs which have no constitutional basis.
A real American cannot fail to be moved by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. An American understands that the "price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
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I blame the hippies.
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^^^^^ Wut he said......  .... yaysss.... I'm just sayn.
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That was for Dudebert.......
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David Bowie was afraid of Americans
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Yah. I'm really all for going back to before the Great Society, to say 1946. No problems back then. Jim Crow. Segregated schools. Segregated housing. No birth control, especially for unmarried women. No college education to speak of. No divorce permitted. Everybody knew their place and stayed there. A significant portion of the country without such amenities as reliable electricity or plumbing. Life expectancy for men around 65. You know, the goooood old days.
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Amen !!! ^^
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bring back george wallace from the grave
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someone who is a us citizen.
we're a melting pot. i don't think any one ethnic or religious group, etc. defines 'american'. so it's all of us.
if you have to narrow it to a single group then i'd say it's native american/first nations people. the rest of us have just stolen the land from them.
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Native Americans and what Chandler said!
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People just need to ask what they can do for their country and not what their country can do for them.
People want to be "Mexican-American, African-American". Well fuck all that.
Be an american or GTFO. That does not mean to forget where you've come from. It means you work and contribute to the american culture and society.
People came to, and still come for a better life or an opportunity. Most work hard and assimilate.
However,many second,third, forth, fifth generation Americans are a bunch of whining pussies. They complain about the past. Cry about the injustices before them. Sure, Americans have done some bad shit but there's been far more good.
The biggest problem with america today is: 1. top heavy over-regulating government. and, 2.Too many people born here who think they are entitled to get something for nothing.
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Since I'm Norwegian, I can honestly say FUCK YOU WHINY AMERICANS!
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^ "Norwegian Wood"
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Was afraid of David Bowie
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A typical American ...
watches a few episodes of the History Channel and says Andrew Jackson could have stopped the Civil War
eats fried or fast food every day, sits on the couch watching Survivor, has a treadmill gathering dust and complains about the cost of health care
has 3 TVs, 2 cars, a tablet, a cell phone, designer watch, and buys expensive coffee from Starbucks, but complains his taxes are making him poor
likes to talk tough about 'whipping butt' on ISIS but never served a day in uniform or volunteered at a VA hospital
talks about their religious freedom all the time, but goes to church maybe 3 times in a decade, if ever
talks about immigrants 'taking all the jobs' but would rather sit on the couch than take a minimum-wage job
whines about their 'culture being stolen' if somebody wears a Halloween costume they don't like
knows nothing about guns but lectures other people on why they should not have them, or the reverse - gun nut thinks everybody has a right to machine guns and artillery pieces. No middle ground.
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Canada
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Spends hours tweeting about making America great again on his mobil device made in China while watching his television made in Taiwan, wearing clothes imported from Mexico and drives a car made in South Korea.
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We're in uncharted territory here folks.
Seems to me that half the population hates the other half.
Common ground has been lost.
Making compromises is dead.
This country fell off the track when the federal gvt started meddling in state affairs.
Bring back the 17th amendment.
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Sorry Stonewall Zero. The 17th Amendment is still in place so what are you wanting to bring back? Election of Senators by the legislatures of the states instead of popular election by the people? That's a brilliant reform, not.
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I'd like to see the Fed get out of everything but the highway system and national defense and leave the rest up to the states to decide.
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I agree zeros
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Article I section 8. All the things the original STATES agreed that Congress would do. The "commerce clause" was not nearly as significant in the horse and buggy days as it became after the suppression of the southern treason in 1865. By that point the first transcontinental railroad was done and the movement of people and products across state borders was on in full press. Congress became more and more involved as that progressed. By the Depression, the arbitrary nature of state lines was obvious. For example, the great Dust Bowl did not stop at the Oklahoma border. It covered the central US from Texas to the Canadian border. The states were incapable of addressing the issues that led to the ecological disaster on that level. (Full disclosure, my family farm was on the edge of the area impacted.) And water sitting behind a dam in Nevada made possible the growth of large metro areas in Arizona and California.
Unless you want to go back to the 17th century, strong and active central government is a permanent fixture of the future. We need to learn how to make it work better.
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