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Originally Posted by subaru5555
Wow.
Yes, it’s not remotely unreasonable to suggest that it’s un-American to have a “president for life”.
I mean, good lord, the arrogance of some people.
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Without swinging either left or right I have to say a common thing is how people in this country seem to have forgotten or even openly deride our history as a nation.
The independent fighting spirit that we were born of and held dear untill....not so long ago. Names that we revered like Hancock, Boone, Crockett, Carson, ,Roosevelt, York, Murphy, Earp, Hickock, Kehoe, Henry, Reeves and so many others have become obscure as have the reasons for the regard and pride they were held in for.
The notion of a president for life is a concept this nations history holds as anathema. Or so I always thought. Makes me wonder what the men who died at Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concorde, Yorktown Cowpens and all the others would say to us if they could.
I'm not that far removed from the feelings that seeing young Americans waving hammer and sickle or Nazi flags invoke. Or lest I forget the Imoerial Japanese rising sun. Ostensibly to show pride in their Japanese import car or motorcycle.
The hundreds of millions of people brutally murdered under those flags be damned. And many waving that old Soviet rag damn the United States as being cruel, inhumane, uncaring racist and xenophobic. Amongst other things.
I'm truly at a loss as to how we've come to this. But it certainly saddens me.
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