Posted on 08/06/2011 2:04:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As a refugee immigrant to the United States I have expressed amazement at the design of the U.S. political system -- so awkward and unwieldy as to render it almost totally dysfunctional. What follows is a list of other riddles of American life that baffle an immigrant, even one of long standing such as me.
Item: Why do Americans suffer gladly race-hustlers like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton? I understand the overpowering yearning to expiate racial guilt tirelessly fanned by the MSM. But there should be a limit to even extreme masochism. Isn't it a little too much to claim that racial equality is an insidious form of racism, invoking the authority of Martin Luther King, Jr. who demanded the polar opposite? And yet this is exactly what we hear nonstop from the Jackson-Sharpton cabal and their sycophantic cohorts in the white liberal circles. Has any member of the Congressional Black Caucus ever failed to discover racism in anything conservatives do, say, or think? Now that American voters have elected Barack Obama largely as an act of racial penance and hopefully got that guilt out of their system, isn't it time to put an end to this demagogic garbage or at least to turn down its volume?
Item: Why is there such a widespread public misperception regarding the "Establishment" clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? To establish a religion, then as now, means only one thing: to make a specific religion sanctioned and supported by the state over all others. The Founding Fathers knew their history and understood that establishing a religion in America would likely lead to endless strife and maybe even religious wars as in Europe, and that only when all religions are separate -- and equidistant -- from government could religious peace be assured.....
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Excellent - thanks for posting.
“...I have expressed amazement at the design of the U.S. political system — so awkward and unwieldy as to render it almost totally dysfunctional...”
Hey, Vic! That was the idea, man.
He neglects to understand the simple fact that the US was born partly out of understanding the Established Church directly. It wasn’t merely a matter of “history”. All colonists had to pay tax to support the Church of England, regardless if they were let to have their own churches. They understood both that the Gov should not be controlled by the Church (e.g., Catholic), and the Church (e.g., Anglican) should not be controlled by the Gov.
I guess Vic wants a political system just like the one he fled from
One need not be an immigrant to be wondering that, I have been for years.
Race hustlers are allowed to roam about and make trouble for the same reason Muslims are allowed to do so in Europe. Liberal mushy brained ideas of “tolerance”.
The founders intentionally designed the government for the slow percolation of laws through the system, so they would be deliberate, fair and necessary.
Consider the story of the saucer.
“There is a tradition that, on his return from France, Jefferson called Washington to account at the breadfast-table for having agreed to a second chamber.
” ‘Why,’ asked Washington, ‘did you pour that coffee into your saucer?’
” ‘To cool it,’ quoth Jefferson.
” ‘Even so,’ said Washington, ‘we pour legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it.’
But that is not the BAD news. The bad news is that the founders also knew that this nation could only work given a moral, informed, religious electorate. We are heading to a secular morally-relativist electorate, and the founders knew with certainty that our laws were wholly inadequate for governing such people.
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams
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