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> it is a place that they feel uniquely safeguards it This isn't news, just read de Tocqueville. As an American I'm comforted by the idea that a significant p
by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> it is a place that they feel uniquely safeguards it
This isn't news, just read de Tocqueville.
As an American I'm comforted by the idea that a significant part of my compatriots will resist any order by virtue of being ordered.
Treat other people like humans with dignity that must be persuaded instead of commanded. That's the American ideal imo.
- a0-prw 6y agoThat's not the way America treats other people around the world.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoHence why they're referred to as ideals. No one lives up to them as a consequence of being human. That doesn't invalidate them.