Do you think America has turned out as the founding forefathers had originally envisioned it?
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America has turned out the way they FEARED it would.\n\nI predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.\n\nI tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.\n\nOur country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.\n\nQuotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Eventually?  I believe this has already occurred.  Those who think Americans live in a democracy are sorely mistaken.  There are two main forces that currently control America: The conservative corporations and the liberal media.  (Neither of those statements are intended to be a negative judgment on either group).  Those two groups are the ones with the money, and the power.\n\nI'm not sour about that.  But I do think that anyone who thinks that every person has a say is fooling themselves.  Both of these groups, over time, have gotten very good at positioning their message so that the majority of people will vote for their candidate.
323539
Hell yah, everyone should look back to the roots of the U.S. even if it WAS DIFFERENT TIMES! It was how it originated!
325437
I doubt I can say it any better than the great patriot and Founding Father, Patrick Henry:\n“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]
1170011
No.  Our founding fathers declared that Church and State were separate and that ALL peoples and beliefs were equal in the eyes of the law.\n\nI'm constantly scared that we're on a slippery slope and those freedoms are being taken away by groups that believe that the US was founded for them.  It was not.
1044559
It is largely believed now that Zhang He, a Admiral from China, had landed on America ahead of Columbus. \n\nHistory as we were taught are being re-written.
31103
The founding fathers, writers of the constitution.
126843
Our founding fathers were incredibly intelligent people. Yet, I believe that while we can't go back into the past and change things, we can wonder what the other outcomes would be if the documents were written differently.\nFor instance, they rightly made the Constitution deliberately ambiguous. Why, you ask? Because that prevents people/states from nitpicking minor details. Various freedoms (freedom of sppech, action...) are listed in teh constitution, and yet, people in the supreme court debate over the interpretation of these words.\n\nAdditionally, the amendability of the constitution is also valuable, since interpretations of the constitution and times change. If it were more rigid, it would be tougher for good change to take place.
114543
Depends. The freedom (even though we don't have the freedom that they swear we have, but it is more than alot of other countries), the beautiful scenery, the hustling city, the different races, different cultures, I think they call it a "melting pot", I mean America is REALLY a mixture of other things plus new things, and it actually equates to something beautiful.
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Over the two and a quarter centuries that the USA has existed probably yes. The people who sneaked in have by and large helped build the economy, raised families and led blameless lives. Look at it logically: If you came to a country without a green card wouldn't you do your best to keep your nose clean and your mouth shut lest you were found out and ended up in a cell waiting to be deported?
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I agree with it and I think it will happen. It already has in more enlightened countries and the US will follow eventually.
890909
To a greater degree than in any other society on the planet? yes; to the degree that the Founding Fathers had in mind? probably not.
540574
No. It's a far cry from his day. He'd be shocked at how the constitution has been slaughtered and reinterpreted to fit the desires of a fickle society. I'm sure, if he were alive, he'd be explaining what our forefathers were thinking when they wrote our constitution. <*)))><
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Absolutely not!  I hope this nation doesn't de-evolve back into petty vigilanteeism!  We've all seen where that has led us before.
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I'm certainly open to exploring the idea, especially the healthcare side of it. America has become close-minded and slow to evolve compared to Europe, Canada and Australia. If we think our form of government is the best there'll ever be and never strive for more ... well then, we'll just flounder and implode like every other empire.\n\nPeople hear the word "communism" and they think it's a religion or form of government. Noooo, it's an economic system, and if they'd actually READ something like Marx and Engel's "Communist Manifesto," they'd have a clue what said gentlemen had in mind. It may not have worked in practice, but there are IDEAS there of significant value, and we can't write them all off just because they're associated with something other than capitalism.\n\nMcCarthy is dead; move on.
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Should be..but even if we had adopted a new government...if people in the position will stay the way they used to, probably we'll remain the same...We are yearning for better. What president and all the government officials are promising to us, never happened in reality. I don't want to expect too much from this country. Everything should be in a new form by now but seeing it with my own eyes, as much as possible I want to be realistic--and this is the reality.
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I believe that as a society, and speaking narrowly just upon the AMERICAN society, that it goes back to the roots of the country. It is that way with every place on earth, though. In our case...the roots of the society we live in were set by people following a Christian religion. This isn't right or wrong, this is just fact. The Native Americans had their forms of practice and religion practically shoved aside. All of our rules, our social limitations, laws, perceptions of society and proper etiquette; these were all established for the country by those before us.\n\nWe're lucky enough to live in a place where we have outside influences flowing in. We're constantly exposed to other cultures and ways of thinking. I think this may be why we are changing as a society on our views (I know, it seems to be so slow!).  People challenge pre-concieved notions. We see other ways of viewing the world and can either decide to allow our minds to expand and accept new things, or to remain on the paths of thinking that those before us followed.\n\nOn the other hand...majority of humans DO just follow in the steps of those before them. There's a large part of the human mind programmed to "fit in with the rest of the tribe", which is why for some people it's so damned hard to just be different and think differently.\n\nI was just thinking about all of this last night, actually....\n\n...there are still places in the world where they eat their dead, let the vultures pick the bones dry, then allow the mother to hold the bones for her grieving period of a few days before burial. \n\n...not to mention places they eat live bugs.\n\n...but then again...Americans have weird costums, too. ;)\n\nThanks for a thought-provoking question!