the riots and violence

Just going to toss this out there. Found it interesting to see how few it takes to control the masses.



https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...ement=etcetera

Interesting article O'Mike.
I'm not quite sure that the protesters we are seeing today actually want or understand the changes they want to make.

I remember the 50's, 60's and 70's.
I remember the violence and the changes.
I remember the good and the bad.

I see the same good and bad happening today.
It wasn't the violence that made the changes in the past and the violence won't make the changes today.
To me the violence makes change harder because people have a tendency to overlook the changes because it's easier to see the violence and it puts a bad taste in many people mouth.

The US is by no means a perfect country but I don't know of another that is better.

I also think that trying to erase our past history is a mistake. People should always learn from the past. If you erase it...it's going to be a lot harder to learn.

The US is by no means a perfect country but I don't know of another that is better. Originally Posted by tbone2u

Very true....especially if you compare it to some of the recent protests in Iran where citizens were just mass murdered in the streets or China where they just disappear off the face of the earth never to be heard from again.....

I also think that trying to erase our past history is a mistake. People should always learn from the past. If you erase it...it's going to be a lot harder to learn. Originally Posted by tbone2u

I’ve always believed this....I don’t care if it’s a statue of Robert E. Lee or MLK....it’s part of our history and should be preserved for future generations to learn from....

From US News & World Report
Top 5 Best Countries-

1.) Switzerland
2.) Japan
3.) Canada
4.) Germany
5.) United Kingdom

Some polls based on a range of categories; quality of life, travel destination, power and growth, entrepreneurship, culture influence, healthcare, low crime.

The United States was in 8th place. Other polls had the US in 15th place, one had the USA in 27th place!

Go World!!!

Source:
BAV Group Consulting
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.

From US News & World Report
Top 5 Best Countries-

1.) Switzerland
2.) Japan
3.) Canada
4.) Germany
5.) United Kingdom

Some polls based on a range of categories; quality of life, travel destination, power and growth, entrepreneurship, culture influence, healthcare, low crime. Originally Posted by USAsoldier

^^^^^ Your polls worked out so well last time didn’t they?....get yourself some life experience and read some history books son....then come back.....

Or.....you’re free to move anytime you wish....don’t let the door.....ijs

From US News & World Report
Top 5 Best Countries-

1.) Switzerland
2.) Japan
3.) Canada
4.) Germany
5.) United Kingdom

Some polls based on a range of categories; quality of life, travel destination, power and growth, entrepreneurship, culture influence, healthcare, low crime.

The United States was in 8th place. Other polls had the US in 15th place, one had the USA in 27th place!

Go World!!!

Source:
BAV Group Consulting
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. Originally Posted by USAsoldier

Canada and germany?

Makes me wonder why so many people of many of those countries come here for medical care. Could it be that social medicine doesn't so well. I wouldn't want to live in any of those countries for multitudes of reasons.

Long gun stocks. And funeral services.

You can ask questions in such a way as to tilt a poll in any direction you'd like. That's what happened in 2016. The data out is only as good as the data in.

Look at the methodology and attributes that were used to determine the "best countries". It's obviously skewed to give favor to socialism.



Ask that question another way and see what answer you'd get.
For instance. What country has done the most to defeat tyranny, facsism, communism and improve the human condition within it's own borders and across the globe in the last 250 years?

Germany, Japan and Switzerland(for different reasons) damn sure won't make the top 5


Do any search you want for greatest documents in the world. Use your own term of importance be it political, social, world changing whatever. #1 will universally be the Magna Carta. After that the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation come in not far behind regardless of the slant.

This country has a lot of faults but yes our system of government is second to none. The biggest fault is that most citizens don't take part. They take the liberties we have for granted and are complacent about defending them the way our founders did and set us up to be able to do at any point.


Even our Constitution is not perfect. It's required amending and can you imagine the incredible difficulty of voting for a 3/5 compromise in order to get the country up and running? Even the founders couldn't agree on that one point which today seems absurd. They found a way to make it work and left it to future generations to fix. That's courage in my opinion. I can't imagine the anguish of those founders who had to vote for that one point alone despite knowing it was inherently wrong. It also goes to show that context matters. It was a different time.

Removing context from history is a way of minimizing it. It would be like saying we kicked Germany's ass. That would make us sound like a bully but in the context of defeating fascism and one of the most despicable humans ever no one disagrees that it was the right thing to do. Hell, few disagree, for that matter, that it was the right thing to do to ally with one of the other most despicable humans ever to do it. History matters, context matters, lives matter. All lives. The absurdity of the 3/5 compromise is all you need to consider when now some are saying that some lives matter more than others.

"Removing context from history is a way of minimizing it...
History matters.." Originally Posted by boardman

Really sir, history matters? Because the Native Indian Americans would like to have a word with you over preserving history.

soldier boy.....you don't think people today feel bad about what happened with the Native American Indians? You're grasping and losing.
That's part of our history, not a good part but it is a part.
That's why it's so important to remember history and preserve it. We learn from it.

You can ask questions in such a way as to tilt a poll in any direction you'd like. Originally Posted by boardman

And pollsters can mark responses anyway they want. 2004 & 2016.

Really sir, history matters? Because the Native Indian Americans would like to have a word with you over preserving history. Originally Posted by USAsoldier

Should U.S. citizens respond today in the same manner as did the "Native Indian Americans" in the past to uninvited immigration?

History.........full of wars


man vs man
man vs nature
man vs god

Really sir, history matters? Because the Native Indian Americans would like to have a word with you over preserving history. Originally Posted by USAsoldier

That's fine.
What happened to Native Americans certainly needs to be preserved as a part of American history not whitewashed, dismembered, destroyed and/or forgotten.

"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana