I’ll start by saying, I’m prepared for this short series to stir up some heated discussions. I’m not really much for political banter, but hopefully we can have some constructive dialogs about the current state of our society.
Every so often something comes up that makes me wonder if we should really be continuing to call ourselves a “democracy” without pointing out some important disclaimers. I’ve realized there are a number of issues I’ve become aware of that I don’t think the majority of people know about and might be worth pointing out, at least to raise some awareness and foster some discussion. I’ll be talking about things like our military presence in the world, rampant violations keeping people from voting during elections, police forces during protest, and maybe other things as the conversation progresses.
I also don’t have a lot of time this week to write so these might be absent of substantial links and pictures if I run out of time (I’ll try). But maybe it will get the conversation going and we can continue discussion from there.
The second side note is that I have no fantasy of this country changing it’s current structures and situations. There are things I know I can do on the local level and ways I can at least make my voice heard as a citizen, but I’m not necessarily suggesting these things as a case to radically change the government (no communist or socialist flags here). I’m writing this more in hopes to raise awareness and discussion and encourage people on a personal level to open their eyes to some of the mis-information we’ve been fed.
Hope you enjoy.
p.s. The category topic is stolen from Harpers mag.
Cool, I can’t wait to read your thoughts on this.
I’m not sure where you’re writing from… are you an American? America is not a democracy. America is a republic (recite the pledge again in your mind. “…And to the republic, for which it stands…” We have democratically elected officials, but we are a country of laws (republic) not the most popular opinion (democracy). I’ll be interested to see what comes next too
Scott,
Thanks for your thoughts I hadn’t realized that before, or thought much of the difference. Well, I guess I could say you’ve ruined my whole series, but I’ll try not to get too down about it.
Let’s just assume I meant republic where I said democracy.
i just wanted say that the video about the miami model was just disturbing. there was definatley no reason for the pigs to spend that much money for a “peaceful” riot gear demo. i just wanted to let u know that i have recently became an involved political activists in the recent months. especially after i got to see so many different groups out there that felt the same way i do about the police-states,detention&round-up, being stripped of the very rights that this country was founded on. we were born with black hoods over heads and the goverment wants to keep it that way, well guess what, our freedom didn’t come with a price and it will not cost us now
we have to stand up and resist&refuse globalization, we need to learn how to coexist with everyone and stop all this war and hate