The dumb America as aspiration....

Another member of the "Lunatic Fringe" is going to be a Senator. Washington cannot pass any laws, even with a majority in all branches of government the Republicans fail, and the people support the failure. We are getting to the point where Science and literature cannot carry the country any longer, and they are starting to not want to carry the country. We must use minor coercion to get people voting, a tax deduction etc. or, like Australia, a law that says you must vote. We've abandoned our government to the gypsies, tramps, and thieves. It's pathetic to see, and a horror to live through. We appear to aspire to incompetence, self-aggrandizement, and hopelessness. We have become traitors to our stated ideals and watch actual traitors run our country. Perhaps we should just surrender to the rich and powerful.

No one loves The American United States more than I do, all they can do is tie. And I agree that people that love the Country in different ways than I do can be offended by some one taking a knee during the National Anthem being played. I disagree with them about the knees meaning because it doesn't lead me to love my country less, it actually leads me to love it more. A protester has the right to protest. The person who gets goose bumps when the Star Spangled Banner plays, a person like me, is not in any way reduced, not in anyway attacked, the Amount of love for the country is not reduced by theses actions. Our freedoms and ambitions are not challenged. The protest is simply saying, please, America, treat us black and mixed races citizens like you treat all white people: don't shoot us down in the street. If anyone is violating the law arrest them, don't kill them. If they are killed don't let the policemen off because they are white, but because they made the right decision, as found by a thorough and objective investigation. Please honor the rule of law, not the rule of men, or the rule of men of a particular race. It's not the bending of the knee you dislike, it's someone putting the fact of bigotry, injustice, and there being "special people" who are above the law, and other "special people" undeserving of the protection of the law. And you know America and America's ideals put you bitching and moaning over people standing up for what we say everyone has, justice and equality, against those people, those black people, those other people, those undeserving people, on the wrong side of the argument. "All men are created equal". America strives for "Freedom and Justice for all", and the people who are following Trump and complaining about the blacks and others pointing out the fact that they have never had equal treatment in America and that their complaints are somehow challenging the existence of America, are 100% wrong. If we don't give equal treatment to all citizens then we are not America, we have failed to strive for "A more perfect Nation", we are settling for not honoring the Constitution, and the Declaration. We are unamerican when we want other people to not be equal and free, free like us. And taking a knee to say you white guys have failed to meet the challenge isn't the problem. The fact that you don't want to see the failure, to feel it is your personal failure, is the trouble.