I am from Sweden and i HATE and DETEST the EU, I want out of it right now right here and keep my cash in my country.
For the well being of my country!
I am from Sweden and i HATE and DETEST the EU, I want out of it right now right here and keep my cash in my country.
For the well being of my country!
I believe you don't understand anything about patriotism and the "idea" of America Op, but nice try !
The Civil War is an example of the inability of small government to handle a crisis, yes.
Again, the states could take back their 'rights' at any time, but they don't because they want the Federal government's money. The Constitution is no longer just a limiter on Federal power, it is a foundation and framework. Constitutional elasticity is an organic necessity, and any who say otherwise are quite frankly stupid.
Why is treating people the same a bad thing? You're conflating administrative failure with failure of governance.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Nothing hypocritical. Big governments = inflexible leviathans with no room for maneuver to implement effective reforms = Europe is in deep shit. It's very funny when Europeans try to claim the high ground, how sensible they are, how green, how welfairy (lol), how they are the most intelligent on planet earth, free healthcare... and all that crap when at the same time they are emigrating faster than the french when they retreat.
We have an amendment process for things such as civil rights. If something is important enough, it SHOULD be an amendment. Things like that were why the amendment process is there in the first place.
A Constitutional amendment isn't the Federal Government telling anyone to do anything. At least not directly. Because an Amendment is ratified by a full 3/4 of the states' legislatures (or conventions), it is the people and states themselves who are telling the Federal government what to do (or expanding the federal government's power to do something the people view as necessary).
Maybe that's just because you have a prejudice that all Europeans are so happy with their countries.
They're generally not, you see. Sure; they're happy with the whole green thing, with welfare (though that should be a bit better, honestly), with insurances... But that doesn't mean they're happy with everything else.
Very droll. France has its set of problems, just like the US has its set of problems, as does every other Western country. But do not confuse transient issues with analyses of systemic failure and success.
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I disagree. What makes a government 'small' is precisely that its powers and authority are limited, ergo making it weak.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
a patriot loves their country and does what they can to help it.
everyones idea of that is different, which is why i dont trust anyone who calls themself a patriot to act in ways id support.
Indeed. Furthermore, while Slava might mean glory in Slavic (despite the fact there is no Slavic language, just a Slavic language family), the term Slav in English comes from the Greek Sklaboi which is a Hellenization of the Latin sclavus, meaning slave.
Which of course, is pure etymology and is no comment on the people themselves.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi