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Old Dec 22, 2006, 01:43 pm   #7 (permalink) (top)
Athena
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The United States is not, and has never been, a democracy. It's a constitutional republic.

No, a bunch of so-called "scientists" decided to come up with theories to explain the differences in various groups of humans in order to classify them according to superiority/inferiority. Now we have anthropology, sociology and psychology. As for "sexism," that depends on how you're defining it. Throughout human history there have been clearly defined roles for men and women. It is an idiot (or a feminist, which is really the same thing) that believes there are no inherent differences between men and women (though different does not mean unequal).

Who assumes both are wrong? Clearly the racist sees nothing wrong with racism. Clearly the "sexist" (whatever that means) doesn't see it as wrong.

Your attempt to make it sound like this stupid notion of diversity is a good thing and somehow humanity's destiny is just a bunch of fluff.

The day may come when we humans finally decide to be human instead of being "American" or "European" or "African" or "Asian" or this or that nationality or any combination thereof. Then again, those groups who insist on their unique identity may fight to retain their separate group identity.

The United States would be totally different if it had not been founded on the principles of democracy. Unfortunately, without literacy in Greek and Roman classics, people do not understand democracy and its importance to having a republican form of government. Since we stopped educating for democracy, we have fought every war for nothing. The US democracy could become as forgotten as Athens democracy in the same approximately 200 year life spanned of short lived civilizations. Now this direction of possible evolution is something I seriously hope does not happen, but with people insisting the US is not a democracy, and because they lack understanding of what democracy is, the US could return to governing authority over a supressed mass, worse than any history because of it is not technologically capable of being the worst tyranny that ever was. With the prepared young to be subserviant products for industry since 1958, the worst could happen.


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