Re: this forum name is abhorrent
I don't know if you know this, but the monarchy, pre-overthrow, was a constitutional monarchy and may even have been elected (I didn't pay enough attention in seventh grade history, I know).
As for the name of this forum, I'd ask that you reconsider. We all love our country (just read some of the posts and you'll see that even in passionate disagreement, we are almost unanimously in favor of making this place a better place to live), but there is a certain insanity about what goes on here. I mean, we know who Paris Hilton is dating, but we don't know who we voted for in the school board elections. That's crazy, I tellya, and you know what's crazier? We don't really do much to change any of that.
Despite all our folly (and it is considerable), the country still, by and large, works. That's both awe-inspiring and crazy. I'll bet if you and I continue to discuss this, we will find a million things to disagree about, but I'll bet we could still find enough common ground to shake hands and roll our sleeves up and make changes, because that's the other crazy thing about this nation -- we, you and me and Pzarquon and all the other bananas who frequent this place -- actually have the power to do something, or even crazier, to simply complain and not do a dang thing.
Crazy. The only un-crazy governments are the ones that take the citizenry's power away from it (because the citizenry is nuts!), and those are governments I want no part of.
Welcome to HT!
I don't know if you know this, but the monarchy, pre-overthrow, was a constitutional monarchy and may even have been elected (I didn't pay enough attention in seventh grade history, I know).
As for the name of this forum, I'd ask that you reconsider. We all love our country (just read some of the posts and you'll see that even in passionate disagreement, we are almost unanimously in favor of making this place a better place to live), but there is a certain insanity about what goes on here. I mean, we know who Paris Hilton is dating, but we don't know who we voted for in the school board elections. That's crazy, I tellya, and you know what's crazier? We don't really do much to change any of that.
Despite all our folly (and it is considerable), the country still, by and large, works. That's both awe-inspiring and crazy. I'll bet if you and I continue to discuss this, we will find a million things to disagree about, but I'll bet we could still find enough common ground to shake hands and roll our sleeves up and make changes, because that's the other crazy thing about this nation -- we, you and me and Pzarquon and all the other bananas who frequent this place -- actually have the power to do something, or even crazier, to simply complain and not do a dang thing.
Crazy. The only un-crazy governments are the ones that take the citizenry's power away from it (because the citizenry is nuts!), and those are governments I want no part of.
Welcome to HT!
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