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In reply to the discussion: America is Dead [View all]world wide wally
(21,738 posts)The premise of "America" laid out by the founding fathers requires diligence, devotion, hard work and intelligence. They even limited voting to white, male landowners because they thought they would be the only segment of the population that would be intelligent enough to make these honest and yes "compassionate" decisions that would benefit ALL Americans.
Although these men were intelligent, insightful, and of noble intentions, they were NOT Godlike. They did not imagine the time when corporations bought power to supersede this jewel they had struggled to create, fought for, died for and knew it would be man's last, best hope.
They didn't see a time when people would work all day just to come home and watch tv shows about other people's lives as the more ambitious, ruthless, and greedy plotted to steal the hard
earned money they had just worked all day for and brainwash them with fake news.
They assumed that our citizens would always be as noble as they themselves were and rise up to fight for themselves. Not to join in with the power crazed greedy against their own brothers.
RIP USA