Why are Americans so disenchanted with our system of government?

Question

Why are Americans so disenchanted with our system of government?

Answer 1

I'm not.  The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of rights are brilliant.

Answer 2

Most people are never happy.  

Answer 3

America is turning into a police state. Ever read George Orwells 1984?

Bush passed the following Legislation to take civil liberties away from the people;

1) 2004....RFID Chip Verification Chip was legally approved by the FDA to officially brand and track humans, basically it is GPS for people. It is to hold all of your medical and banking information, in the future you will not be able to buy/purchase/sell anything without it but if you misbehave- it's cut off. The catch is it is manufactured by IBM, the same company that sorted and counted people via the Hollerith Machine for the n**i party to make the Holocaust possible.

2) 2004...Bush has begun working with a Constitutional law attorney out of California - who is known for rewriting law without public consent. The Senate begins pushing legislation to dissolve the borders of the US, Canada and Mexico. We are no longer the United States of America but the American Union. The next step for the future is a new Amero currency and to dissolve the Constitution of the United States and it's Bill of Rights completely. We are at a very critical time, when people are paying more attention to their Ipods, TV and video games then to their Corporatized gov't and stand to lose all their liberties.

3) 2007... US Attorney General proposed the Senate to Declar " a new global war" initative which means we can invade, raid and murder people in any country-including our own for oil. It will also allow the govt to bypass any environmental laws due to 'war.'  Bush also proposed to permanently destroy the " Writ of Habeus Corpus"  It is a writ that protects you, me and every citizen from being thrown in jail indefinately without being told why- and without a fair trial. Now you or anyone could go to jail for something trivial, and rot in jail without due process of law.

4) Corporatized Govt- The United States is a country for the people, by the people, a collective agreement between working class people. Our gov't has been purchased sold and traded for private and public corporate interests. They no longer care that the quality of life has declined across the US.... because they make BILLIONS off of the War and Disaster Economics while the average citizen makes a minimum wage of $5.25-$8.00 per hour and has to work two jobs just to survive. While our Senate took home 4, $5,000 pay raises in the last 5 years. Why should citizens live in poverty while our gov't lives in luxury off of our tax dollars? It's called slave labor and as long as you work and pay your taxes they could give a rats *** about you or the future well being of your family.

5) Increased Surveillance. Big brother is on the rise and it is not to protect you from 'terrorists' or criminals. It is about watching you and limiting your freedom. Benjamin Franklin once said " If you give up your Liberty for Security. You will eventually lose both your Security and your Liberty. But the American People foolishly signed it all away with the Anti-Terroism Bill and the Patriot Act.

6) Codex Alimentarius-  Dec of 2009 we integrate these trade agreements into US law. Another invention of the n**i party- I.G. Farben. A simple idea that now controls 44,000 guidelines for the World Agriculture and Trade Association of food production. This whopper makes all Vitamins, Minerals and Organic Foods Illegal. It requires that all Food, Fish, Fin, Poultry or Beef be irradiated (which kills all nutrients in the food), treated with Monstavos bovine growth hormone and injected with 9 of the 13 most deadly chemicals known to man. 13 Chemicals 60 Countries agreed NEVER should be placed in food. So deadly is Codex, that the World Health Organization estimates 1 Billion will die of Starvation and 2 Billion from Under Nutrition come 2010. Consuming dead food starves the body, compromises the immune system- rids the planet of the lower class and profits Big Pharma, Big Bio Tech, Big Agriculture and Big Medicine to make Billions and Billions off of illness and death.

Ever watch V for Vendetta? Welcome to the future of America if people in this country do not wake up fast. Obama and McCain are just puppets, what we really need is not another 4 years of lip service but a Revolution.  One way or another you, in your lifetime will witness billions of people die due to an Old n**i agenda OR Fighting for Freedom from a one world government system set to enslave, track and control mass populations.  

Answer 4

In the last 8 years it stole 3 trillion dollars from you and got you into another 3 trillion in debt to China.  How can you trust a system that so disregards you, your hard work and the hard earned taxes that you so diligently pay. What's your payback,  other than being a good citizen while you are getting a royal s***w job.  

Answer 5

I agree with Sophie and Coasty.  The original system was a work of genius.  It's where that system has been taken by the super rich corporate executives, neocons, "Christian" fundamentalists, corporate owned media...etc. that's causing all the problems.  http://oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

Answer 6

It is not the system we are disenchanted with but the current crop of hired help. They should everyone be fired and a new set hired.

Answer 7

1 Iraq

#2 Katrina

#3 f***y Mae and Freddie Mac

#4 health care system

#5 school system

#6 elimination of social security for younger generation

#7 greedy banks making bad loans ( there had been laws in place)

#8 gasoline at almost $5.00/gal caused by future's speculation ( there had been law about this also)

to name a few...

Answer 8

Cause everyone is this country is so overindulged and entitled that they do not know what true poverty is. They don't understand how good they have it.

Answer 9

I feel

That it's been hijacked by lobbyists and corporations that massage it to get what the corporations want done, and it is no longer under the control of the people.

Any actual reform that would benefit the people, yet harm the drug, insurance, oil, or farm corporations is quickly quashed or so loaded down with BS that by the time it's enacted it's so difficult to use it's not practical for real people, or is totally ineffective as to its primary purpose casue it's filled with exceptions and loopholes.

Answer 10

Those that are have no conception of how lucky we are to live under the system we have.  They focus only on the things they dislike, and somehow seem to assume that much of the rest of the world has the same system we do, except for those "evil Republicans" or "crazy Liberals," or whatever.  But we don't have the awful problems of much of the less-developed world - actual massacres of political enemies and such - and our government is stronger and better able to adapt than than even the governments of Europe.

People don't appreciate what we have.  That doesn't mean there's no room for improvement.  But our system allows for that too!