America- Love it or leave it

[sspadowsky]

Thanks, Italian. I really do hope things change for the better here.

A year or two ago, Miss Modular brought up the fact that only two democratic republics had lasted over two hundred years- the Roman Empire, and us. Ever since then, I've thought a lot about that, and what would happen if the shit hit the fan here. I mean, it does happen. Empires fall. Ask the British, or the Mongols, or the Romans. I think that things have gotten so good and so easy in standard-of-living terms, that it seems we've developed a sort of immortality/invincibility complex. Well, we're neither. And we, as a country, need to get that through our heads as quickly and thoroughly as possible. We've grown complacent and lazy, and as a result, our constitution has been trampled, and more of our rights are being stripped away. I'm not confident that the populace will get its collective shit together in time, but I do still hold on to hope.