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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSupporting the destruction of the system that gave
them the ability to do so, is overwhelmingly frightening.
Here we are.
Let us manage well.
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Supporting the destruction of the system that gave (Original Post)
cachukis
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lastlib
(25,979 posts)1. "....whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends.....
...it is the RIGHT of the PEOPLE to ALTER or ABOLISH IT, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
---Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
cachukis
(3,252 posts)2. Can't imagine creating a new government with these
people around.
lastlib
(25,979 posts)3. Hard to argue with that......
...but perhaps we can find a way just to alter the one we have, in some way to prevent them from ever doing this sh*t again. Hope springs.....
cachukis
(3,252 posts)4. We have the ammendment process, but we are
trying to raise the level of consciousness with the intransigent, happy to manage their world view.