U.S. Must Become Two Countries
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| Fri, 09-10-2004 - 11:44am |
Half of the country should succeed. It seems very logical as we are all very divided. The neo-cons can get their Christian fundamentalist state automatic weapons available at Walmart(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/politics/09ban.html), women barefoot and in the kitchen and all forms of tolerance outlawed. If that's what the people want they should have it! I believe in democracy but not the tyranny of the majority.
The rest of us will live in a peaceful harmonious society modeled after Scandanavia. We'll have socialized healthcare, outlaw hand guns, provide education for al.
I really think this is the answer! I don't want to leave this country because it is my home but I can't live with the extremist attitudes developing in the last 20 years. I actually like our constitution and the policies of FDR and want to keep them in place.

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As far as automatic weapons go, they aren't addressed by the AWB in any fashion, since it deals ONLY with semi-auto firearms. Which of course, illustrates yet again the misinformation being spread by gun control advocates about the Assault Weapon Ban in an effort to protray it (and the firearms it covers) as something it and they are not.
As for tolerance (or lack thereof), just how much tolerance did you demonstrate in your post?
~mark~
Bev
And FYI, I think you mean "secede," not "succeed."
Bev
and people say that Bush is the one trying to divide the country... LOL
I think this thread says otherwise...
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I loved it on a tragi-comic scale.
I don't see any extremist attitudes as much as I see an "anything goes" type of culture lately that some of us are just sick of.
The rest of us will live in a peaceful harmonious society modeled after Scandanavia. We'll have socialized healthcare, outlaw hand guns, provide education for al. >
The only problem with your scenario is that the vast majority of people in this country would not want to live in either of those two countries. As much as you would like to paint all conservatives as backward, gun totin' religious wackos, and as much as some would like to portray liberals as hippy, communist wannabes, the fact is that most of us fall somewhere in the gray area between the two extremes.
The "Age of Irresponsibility" has come to a breaking point with me.
I am sick of the Christian-bashing.
I am sick of the left convincing millions of people that they have to depend on government to take care of them.
I am sick at heart when I see how 12 and 13 yr. olds are having oral sex for fun.
I hate to see the way entertainment has deteriorated to the lowest of animal instincts.
Teachers can't disipline and courts can't convict.
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