Democracy isn't perfect but it is better then other forms.
I agree completely with this statement. It isn't perfect but what is, we the people get to choose what we want. We get to vote for what we beleive in, this helps us make our country what we want it to be. We also have regulations, and everybody can't be happy, but the majority can. This creates a question of should we just be making the majority happy? What about everyone else, what if their ideas will keep us safer, keep us all happy in the long run, or just actually really be better for our country.
The problem with that is that no one ever seems to listen to the other opinion that is out there anymore only the one that agrees with there own. Can we ever truely have a conversation deciding what is truely right anymore? I don't think we can becuase we have split ourselves up into two seperate groups, or two seperate main groups, democrats and republicans. I don't feel that almost anyone, especially the ones involved in government can talk about what would be good for this country, becuase one can't agree with the other.
Say a republican and a democrat sat down to talk about the war, and just for example it would truely be best if we stayed in the war in Iraq. The democrat would never go against his beleif he was raised on, he spoke upon, and supported, becuase he just can't listen to the other side becuase of how split up our nation. And vis versa for a republican not listening. They will just think of reasons why that wouldn't work and that is all that would come to mind.
Becuase of this we will never know what is truely right for us, and we will never hear the other side, which couldn't be good, and is scary to think we all live in one nation and are yet so far apart and lack the understanding of one another.
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That's a good thought. One thing about telling the truth is now, how do you know if words are getting twisted within the media or not?
The two party system has made it so easy to disassociate ourselves with our fellow citizens. It also gives people to listen to someone and not question what they are saying. Now if you question George Bush or the war in Iraq you are considered unpatriotic. I find that ridiculous. Like that conversation we had in class, a true american is someone willing to question the government or burn the flag in protest.
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