Do you feel we the People have our say in America?

Question

We were not asked if we wanted to go to war in Iraq, our goverment seems to have lost touch with the people

Answer 1

If your rich and white our Government is listening.

Answer 2

Yes, That's Freedom of speech.
But how to ask you before going in to Iraq?
When little children and grand-children of all tribes of different community after independence were all playing computer games with Freedom of speech and ghost stories with miscommunication and communication failures that spreads like wild-fires in sending their own brothers and sisters to Iraq?
Until some of them don't even come back or be war casualties
of their ghost stories.
Making the dirty old men having restless and sleepless night in disturbing their good night sleep.
So did you teach little children an old saying " Children are to be seen and not to be heard!"
Which does not change with time but stays in time on planet earth.
So tell the children and let the dirty old men in office do their dirty job and stop spreading ghost stories with Freedom of speech.

Answer 3

The fact of the matter is that we don't have true democracy in the U.S., we have a representative gov't. This means that we don't choose what we want to happen in our country, but we choose people who decide what we want to happen in our country, which is good in some ways (like the american people don't have to vote every time a new bill is introduced) but also bad in others (like when those we elected do things we didn't really want them to do, like go to war and grant large corporations tax breaks and gov't contracts because of corporate lobbyists. Basically, they decide what we need...I think of them as parents, only parents that I can decide to get rid of...

Answer 4

For the biggest part, no. Politicians kiss your *** until they get in office then they kiss the *** of special interest groups and big business who have bought and paid for them. Regardless of what the subject is that government is dealing with you can be damm sure it all boils down to money in the end.

Answer 5

no because of 30% of the population voting that shows that people don't care in the first place and we are a epresentative democracy that means that we only hold "sway" over elected officials who vote and plus minoritys are discluded in the majority vote system

Answer 6

Do you know a better way to govern a country than democracy?


if you have an option in mind share it with others...

Answer 7

No, in America and many other countries

Answer 8

but there are some who do want the war...do they have a say too...or just you...

Answer 9

sadly, we are losing more of our say each day