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Originally Posted by Ea
I can understand it's not the same scale, and I hope you understand I'm not proposing the same system for USA. That would be ludicrous. It's the feeling of fear of the idea of governmental influence as it has been expressed here (among other places) that leaves me - to be honest - bewildered. And if the reason for that fear, as it was explained, is the British government as it looked like in the late 18th century, then I'm even more  |
Let me try again by quoting myself from the last post.
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And everybody is certain that their way of life is the only one that matters, and willing to cause as much collateral damage in other peoples lives (that they don't even acknowledge exist (or matter)) as it takes to implement their vision of how people's lives should be run?"
That's why the
fear of the idea of government in the US. Nobody
trusts that people with other moral/ethical/political viewpoints will limit the reach of their implementations. Think that's silly? Or limited to the founding of the nation in the late 18th century? Well....
In 1920, after intense 30 years of lobbying, the possession and consumption of alcohol was made illegal in the US. Unfortunately, a majority of Americans drank alcohol. They're still making movies about the criminality spawned by that law. Repealed 13 years later.
From 1933 to 1975, it was illegal to own gold in the US (other than jewelry sold at a price at least 10 times the price of the gold contained.) Why? A president made a decision. Period.
Apartheid? Yep, legally sanctioned from the 1890's into the 1960's.
Shall I go on?
All these, and many others, are reasons why Americans
fear government. Look at many of the closed minded comments in this thread. Would you like to live under their implementation? I wouldn't.