In the short essay that William P. Meyers wrote called, America: Republic or Democracy? William describes a good portion of what are government is. He says that America is part Republic and part Democracy. Republic in that the president is elected through an electoral college and Supreme Court Justices are appointed, but Democratic in that the people choose who are in congress and many of who have to have part in the state legislature. Near the end he explains the most annoying concept that we have in our politics, that you have to have money to have power and that those in elections that use the most money are the most popular. What he doesn't say is that in America, those who sponsor the winner, they get preference over other companies and people, and during elections are a major consideration to the candidates because they can't say what they really think because it might cause their sponsors to withdraw their money.
Most people in America think that the government is corrupt and doesn't get things done. According to Infowars, If you state that you think that the US is corrupt or any iteration of this, in South Carolina, you can get some serious jail time. In this article, they quote our Declaration of Independence as the specific evidence against the “Subversive Activities Registration Act” being that this is what our country was based on.
...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...
-Declaration of Independence
This article goes on to quote efoods which say that, "...federal and state authorities now consider the main terror threat to be from informed American citizens exercising their constitutional rights in opposition to the big government agenda they are being subjected to."
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| This is a map of people's perception of the corruption of their government, RED signifies low percentages and DARK BLUE signifies high percentages of people resenting their government. |
The corruption of America is explained as an analogy of a tree in TheTenCommandments.org. America was founded on unrighteous principles, so it's only logical that these principles have grown to new levels that anger people. I definitely don't agree with the parts he goes on to say about churches and conservatives, but his beginning is sound and is a great explanation of what America is. The problem with his idea is that in the late 1800's, people fought for rights in the work place against the government and big business. This age was labeled the Gilded Age in American History explained as a time of materialism and shallowness. The government was corrupt to big players in industry that paid them to help them strive.
On top of our internal problems, the rest of the world is about to become more powerful than us. It's kind of obvious that this scares us. As a superpower, it frighten us that a communist country is about to overpower us. On top of that, all of Europe is now close to passing us economically.
As we figure out how to help ourselves, I only hope it doesn't grow to war.
-The Observer
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