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I don't think you like the American way of life, do you ?

We are the longest living constitutional cemocracy in the history of the world and you slander this to promote Russia.
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I love America, and as a person who loves America I do not ignore her faults. I would love to see the Daley machine annihilated, totally destroyed. It is a Democratic vote fraud machine that every election adds stolen votes to the Democratic Party. This is not a one-time deal in 1960, this is every election since the Thirties. Federal, state, local.

As an aside, we are not the oldest democracy. Switzerland is. If you want to quibble about your use of the word constitutional, go ahead.

I certainly prefer the U.S. to Switzerland, although I commend Switzerland for its use of the concept of a militia consisting of every able-bodied male Swiss. Every able-bodied Swiss must own a weapon. It convinced the German Army that a small landlocked country in the middle of Europe was far too hard a nut to crack in two world wars.

You see how it works? You can believe America is great, and want it to be greater, and look to other countries to find new ideas that might make the U.S. even better. Not that there are many countries that do even one thing better than America. Very few can claim even one thing.

The fact I find one thing commendable in Switzerland does not mean I would trade American citizenship for Swiss.

You hide behind the U.S. and claim I slander it. Nonsense.

You made presumptuous demands that Russia kow-tow to your ridiculous demands, demands that would never be met by any people with self respect. I pointed out your presumptuousness by demonstrating that what it would be like if any country made such outrageous demands of the United States. That such outrageous demands would be rejected out of hand is obvious, and rightly so.

The only target of my posts is your presumption. Nothing else. I tend to be blunt, and am not a skilled wordsmith. I come to Free Republic mostly to learn, and to a much lesser extent to teach. Composing large posts is difficult for me, I do not like to do it, I am not learning while I am writing, and learning is my first priority. So realize that posts to you have been a considerable investment of my time, time I seriously considered not spending, but still did. I do not presume to have changed your opinions, on anything, but perhaps you will consider other aspects of questions, everything is not so obvious as it might appear on the surface.

On the other hand, you may just consider me a flatulent gasbag. If so, I've wasted my time with you.