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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The impression I get is that the US is no longer a viable country and likely needs to be split up. Democracy is a good system for governing a fairly homogeneous group of people with shared ideals and values; it is not a reasonable system for wharing power between two or more groups of people with nothing in common at all and who basically just hate eachother. The present system in which thye demokkkrat party tries to rule by gaming the system at all points and all times is untenable in the long run.


34 posted on 06/28/2007 3:18:07 AM PDT by rickdylan
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To: rickdylan
Many of the Founding Fathers would agree with you. Though in addition to the things which you mentioned, they thought ancestry was also an important binding force between a people. In any case, here is what John Jay had to say in the Federalist Papers (#2):

With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.

This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.

38 posted on 06/28/2007 3:33:11 AM PDT by old republic
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