Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[Kaan]

We are on a heck of a losing streak for political decisions as far as I am concerned. We have been robing Peter to pay Paul for so long I don't even feel like looking for the source. We have made TERRIBLE foreign policy, budget, and regulatory decisions since at least WW1. We have bastardized the constitution, neglected our schools, destroyed manufacturing, pushed dependency by limiting opportunity...

So you're saying we need to make...the nation...more better...like it was before?

NO. The greatest time in this country was its inception. Let me explain before someone says I love owning slaves. The design of the country and the government was VERY controversial. The founding fathers did not agree all the time or most of the time.

BUT they did design the government, laws, and policies to evolve. This was a great idea, but does not define greatness itself. I want the nation to improve and be great... but there is no again.

Outside of pushing toward actual true equality (men, women, in-between, black, white, red, purple, gay, straight, bisexual, christain, jewish, muslim, atheist...) we haven't done much as a country. To do this, it would take strategy that "both sides" agree on and work toward WITHOUT outside influence (from Putin to the lobbyists)... at all levels of government (city, county, state, national... all corrupt IMHO)

one of the worst things we have done as a country is end-around the constitution. executive orders, laws, etc. have undermined it. For a pot stirring example... If you think everyone has a right to health care, amend the constitution. That's how the country was designed to operate.