Quote from: jojo69 on March 17, 2020, 04:17:08 PM

I love America. I love it's constitution. I love the revolutionary principles of liberty on which it is founded. I love the landscape and I love the people.

The government of the beloved nation of my birth has evolved, before my eyes, into an unrecognizable horror of corruption and violence.

Something something...tree of liberty.

If more Americans knew what the hell you are talking about (and cared to), then perhaps I may not despise America as I do.

Since you allude to Jefferson, you may observe that Jeffersons notion of a natural aristocracy was in essence an attempt to synthesize his own rationally aristocratic mentality with the Enlightenment ideals which he believed with a religious fervour. The resulting vision of a State ruled by an educated middle class was what must surely be one of the most elegant populist theories ever imagined. Too bad that it did not survive contact with reality.

I hold several of the American founders in the highest respectboth Federalists such as Washington and John Adams (plus Adams famous scholarly great-grandsons; read their stuff!), and Antifederalists such as Jefferson, Samuel Adams, et al. I detest Americans all the more for betraying the gift bought with blood and honour by men greater than themselves, and bequeathed to them with a foolish generosity: Freedom given freely, and discarded cheaply!

If my favourite American founders could see their country today, they would probably panic and beg the King to take them back. Nowadays, the individual Americans whom I most respect are the ones who finally realize that the same patriotic principles which make them love what America could have been, must make them hate what America is.

(By the way, from your apparent lack of fatheadedness, I assume that you are probably not fat. That itself makes you a dissident. ;-)

Quote from: jojo69 on March 17, 2020, 04:17:08 PM

Quote from: BitcoinBunny on March 17, 2020, 01:50:12 PM

Yeah guess one is better off in a country where its leader cannot be ousted: Russia, China, Middle East, most African Nations.... The average law abiding citizen has never faced any hardships in such nations at all. Let alone... not being able to buy Bitcoin. Roll Eyes

Soooo much better to live in a country where you oust them every 8 years, but it doesn't matter and nothing ever changes.

Quote from: nullius on March 15, 2020, 05:53:59 PM

(R) 2020!

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(D) 2020!

Quote from: nullius on March 03, 2018, 11:56:40 PM

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This is why I say: Dont vote. By voting, you grant your moral and practical political endorsements to a corrupt system: An ochlocracy manipulated by a plutocracy. The result is kakocracy: Rule of the worst.

If you vote, then you are part of the problem.