FallenAngelina
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Politics in this country has gotten out of hand, the major corporations run this country and control the politicians, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there is no more middle class. We can't have politics as usual any more......This country needs to have thing shaken up, a major overhaul.
People say this during every election. Yawn.
1. There is no more socially mobile society in all the world and in all of history than the United States.
2. The living standard has risen dramatically for everyone in this country during the past hundred years and that is due to the free market, the overall health and improvement of our economy and massive innovation with the capital to back it up. Dentistry, indoor plumbing, vaccines, plentiful food, the internet, a vehicle - just a very few of the immense life improvements that most Americans take for granted as everyday life, but were unimaginable to most even one short century ago.
3. The United States system of government is by design not shake-uppable. There is no one person who can "shake things up" (Hello! Balance of Powers and Federalism) and thank our founding fathers for seeing that empowering one person to this extent makes for tyranny. The US system of government can be clunky and Byzantine, but it's really quite remarkably designed to keep up with and accurately reflect the long term changes in the will of the people. You do not want one person to be able to barge into Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court to "shake things up."
4. Anyone who thinks that we have no freedom of choice hasn't been to most other countries and seen what passes for "fair election" in other parts of the world.
The dusty old "no more middle class" trope is just plain absurd. That's simply demographically incorrect.
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