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We have and are failing

We as Americans, have and continue to fail our moral and ethical obligations to our founding fathers, to ourselves and to the future generations of Americans. We have failed them miserably by overlooking, ignoring and refusing to take action against our elected officials, politicians, judges, law enforcement , government employees and anyone in a position of public trust for crimes against our Constitution and against our fellow Americans for bribery, kick backs, obstruction of justice, perjury, assault, intimidation, operating criminal enterprise, wire fraud, bid rigging, collusion, falsifying documents, misuse of public funds, and a whole slew of other violations of laws and public trust.

We have failed them miserably by letting the government take and limit more and more of our constitutional rights with out protesting and demanding to vote on the issues. With allowing them to secretly pass bills and laws into effect behind closed doors. By allowing private industry and individuals to give money, favors and a variety of perks and positions in order to Influance , alter , restrain , overlook, exempt , intimidate and sway laws and regulations to their benefit regardless of moral and legal implications. And by not limiting the amount of campaign contributions and the amount permitted for each candidate to be spend on their campaigns.

We have also failed them by tolerating the intolerant to the point of silencing public outcries and public debate in fear of offending a group by exposing their agenda and intentions in the name of politically correctness.

As well as failing them by permitting and overlooking illegal immigration , by allowing them to remain in America with no intentions of assimilating into society or declaring their allegiance to America. And by giving them tax payer benefits that they have no right to receive. And by allowing them to vote.

And failed them by permitting a government take power that no longer has the interest or desire to do what is best for its citizens. And by not watching, protecting and insuring the integrity of the greatest government/ citizen contract ever written. I am concerned that it may be to late to save it. Lord knows voting makes no difference .

To all our veterans for your invaluable and selfless service and all our first responders and law enforcement THANK YOU!!!

Bless us all for America is truly in a time of crisis at a very pivotal point in history.

A proud but discouraged American.
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goodlil666 · 51-55, M
@Vin53 Stop with your holier than thou attitude. You seem to forget that the majority of the developed world at that time for hundreds of years was involved deeply in the slave trade. You can not judge men or society by the moral or ethical standards of modern times to standards and practices of what was a perfectly normal part of society and industry in their time.
Your right it reveals that I am intelligent enough to see the difference in societies beliefs then and now and realize it's not my place to judge them. Compared to the " woke" crowd like yourself that think you have some right to judge others by your standards.
And if you really felt so strongly about them being " evil" you would disown any and everything they had anything to do with . That is very telling of the self righteous, condescending, know it all people like you. Just saying
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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@goodlil666 Jesus Christ, did you just defend slavery?
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Vin53 · M
@goodlil666 I'm not condemning our forefathers for living in the time they did however I'm not holding them aloft as any deities when they were also responsible for the despair and subjugation of people who held no claim to being humans in the eyes of their captors. How is this so difficult for you to grasp?
JSul3 · 70-79
@goodlil666 So your answer to his question is: Yes.
JSul3 · 70-79
@goodlil666 You can't defend owning other human beings.
It is immoral.
I am sure you are a fine Christian, correct?
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@goodlil666 You know what? I'm done letting you people throw that word woke around as an insult. I'm owning it. Because you have no clue what it actually means.

woke
adjective
ˈwōk
woker; wokest

chiefly US slang
1
a
: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
b
: reflecting the attitudes of woke people
woke values/language
2
disapproving : politically liberal or progressive (as in matters of racial and social justice) especially in a way that is considered unreasonable or extreme

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke

And so since we're talking about it in the context of you literally defending slаve owners, I must assume you mean it in the first definition.
goodlil666 · 51-55, M
@Vin53 How is it so hard for you to comprehend that different times have different moral and ethical standards. That is not your or my place to judge them. Most of the world was doing it and for hundreds of years. It was a normal part of life all through Europe , Africa, the Middle East and North and South America. Almost all of them were fine Christians. Why can't you accept that . What is obviously immoral to us now was normal for society in their time. Doesn't give any of us the right to judge them for it.
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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@goodlil666
How is it so hard for you to comprehend that different times have different moral and ethical standards.
How hard is it for YOU to comprehend that some things are always wrong? Slavery is one of them.
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