'Worse, whenever you’d visit China or Singapore, it was always the people there who used to be on the defensive when discussing democracy. Now, as an American, you’re the one who wants to steer away from that subject. After all, how much should we be bragging about a system where it takes $20 million to be elected to the Senate; or where a majority of our members of Congress choose their voters through gerrymandering rather than voters choosing them; or where voting rights laws are being weakened; or where lawmakers spend most of their free time raising money, not studying issues; or where our Congress has become a forum for legalized bribery; or where we just had a minority of a minority threaten to undermine America’s credit rating if we didn’t overturn an enacted law on health care; or where we can’t pass even the most common sense gun law banning assault weapons after the mass murder of schoolchildren?'
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Calling America: Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
Once the envy of others, the U.S. is more likely to be scrutinized these days.
Or "everybody else does it because it's common sense, therefore, let's not do it!"
It saddens me to see this.
More like "everyone else does it" leads to "well, we're not everyone else" and "our way was invented in the Taft administration, so it's clearly far superior and All-American" and "yeah, but that costs money which means taxes which means it's socialistic and Un-American" and "well, the other party thought it up so we certainly can't vote for it" and "well, an appeals court judge just tossed it out" and "but that will require approval by the states, counties, and cities, and that just won't happen" and "but surely that would be better handled by private industry which can turn a profit by it" and "we'll consider it, as soon as you give in on this utterly unrelated idea of ours over here".
But same difference.