PureX
Well-known member
There are virtues that we Americans glorify all the time, like individual freedom and opportunity, but because we are self-deluded, we don't actually try to embody them. Instead, we want to control each other's lives, endlessly. And we continually support the denial of opportunity for whole segments of our own population. So the talk about freedom and opportunity is just talk intended to keep up our self-delusion.
By our actions, the characteristics we admire are wealth above all, because wealth is power, and then greed, because one can never have enough wealth, and then self-elitism, because we believe wealth and power justifies itself. This is the ugly truth about us, that we will NEVER admit, even to ourselves.
Given our modern, almost totally inter-dependent culture, it is clear that a moderate socialist constitutional democracy is the ideal form of government. But it all depends on the principals set forth in the constitution, and the political processes ability to adhere to them. If the principals are truly socialist, and the mechanics of the government intended to follow them force it to adhere to those principals, I think it will be successful.
Our constitution is a mess, because it was the first one ever developed, and because it was developed by men who were themselves self-deluded. And now we dare not try to correct it because the wealthy and powerful among us will easily be able to control the changes that are being made, to their own advantage, and we would end up with a constitution that defines a fascist oligarchy (we're nearly that, now, functionally speaking). So I fear there is little hope of salvaging this "great experiment". But hopefully the lessons learned are benefitting other nations, and will continue to do so in the future.
Ga 4:16
