What do feel has contributed most to this sense of national shame, if any? Do you have a solution?
Does voting make a difference in your mind whether or not you are in the majority or minority? Last but not least, are you an active registered voter?
2007-07-20 13:15:28 · 12 answers · asked by Active Denial System™ 6 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
It wasn't Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood. It was a real news outlet. Whatever real news is? I prefer NPR & PRI.
2007-07-20 13:36:44 · update #1
Polls are moot as far as I'm concerned. They represent whatever you want them to represent.
2007-07-20 13:40:30 · update #2
abenezerscroogexxx: I'll be the one to ask questions here!
2007-07-20 14:46:32 · update #3
Our inability to elect a leader who DOESN'T think that God whispers in his ear.
Yeah, I have a solution... everyone who didn't vote in the last two presidential elections and doesn't like who we ended up with both times...
GET OFF YOUR BUTTS AND VOTE IN 2008!
I do believe voting makes a difference. If everyone said to themselves "oh, I don't care all that much" or "what does my vote matter, I'll be outvoted by those who oppose what I support", then you may end up living in a city, state or country you really don't like. Oh, and yes, I'm an active registered voter.
2007-07-20 13:17:46 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
National shame: Lack of compassion for those who are young, poor, uneducated, sick or elderly. We are capable of being very charitable, unless we feel the people are "lazy" and "deserve it".
Solution: Stop blaming people for their misfortunes and make sure every child is fed, clothed, housed, and educated. Stop basing educational funds on neighborhood property values, and instead group all the funds for a county or state and share equally among children.
Does voting make a difference? Sometimes. Few of the people I've voted for in national and federal elections have won, but I've had more luck in state, county, and city elections, getting people I think are intelligent and decent into office.
Yes I'm an active registered voter and have voted in nearly election I was eligible for since I was 18 (I'm 49).
I'm also a Democrat, extremely liberal, and don't think any of the Democratic presidential candidates are electable, except maybe Edwards. This country is too sexist and too racist to elect a woman or someone of color as President. I live in NC and we can't even elect a person of color as a senator. I don't think a conservative Republican will win after this last disaster with Bush-more likely a moderate Republican will win (assuming they exist).
2007-07-20 16:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by edith clarke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
“What do feel has contributed most to this sense of national shame, if any? Do you have a solution?”
Foreign exploitation of underprivileged labor and peoples and national resource for the sake of opulent lifestyle in the US.
Solution? A little less greed could go a long way in curtailing warfare and the incomparable grief that is the principle product of it.
“Does voting make a difference in your mind whether or not you are in the majority or minority?”
If the elections are honest it does, and even if they are not it does as even if your vote is discounted in a criminal fashion at least it makes the criminals jump through the hoops and in the course of their actions potentially expose themselves to public ridicule , descent and litigation.
"Last but not least, are you an active registered voter?"
Yes, Independent.
2007-07-20 15:07:34 · answer #3 · answered by Daniel O 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmm. Well there is one thing that springs instantly to mind.
Remember when the Iraqi people voted for the first time and they were all facing death for doing so? You know, back when the terrorists were telling them they'd face snipers and suicide bombers if they went to the polls?
Well, I had to just pause and reflect after I saw them all go out there and vote anyway.
Why the shame?
Well, I started thinking about a certain class of voter in the U.S. "The Offended Class" and, "The Intimidated Class" . . .
The ones who were intimidated when they went to vote because someone at the polls didn't "smile" at them as they voted. -Or maybe looked at them with a "stern face".
Get it?
2007-07-20 14:50:08 · answer #4 · answered by mark623112 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately the world views the U.S. by the person we elect. And unfortunately the Bush administration has shamed all of us by lying to the world. He went to War presenting speculation as fact. He didn't care what price we had to pay to accomplish he own personal goal at getting back at Sadam for trying to assassinate his father. He is a spoiled little Brat and his parents are to blame. It will take our country years to regain the respect of the rest of the world.
The solution is getting a Democrat in office. Our views on the world are so different then the Republicans. And this is long over due. We are the laughing stock of the world and not a world leader. Lead by example.
I do vote. I wish the presidency was won by the popular vote, that way all votes would count, unlike today.
2007-07-20 14:25:05 · answer #5 · answered by TRACER ™ 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't care if I am the minority or majority. I vote what I believe, and when it is over, I support my country and it's choice. Better than any other system I know of.
Better than throwing a fit every time my candidate loses, like some kid who doesn't win at Monopoly!
National shame? Open sedition, name-calling, rumor-mongering, treating our officials in ways we would sue the government for if they treated us the same.
That's our national shame. Another is political bigotry. Whole sections of the population that people feel comfortable to hate, yet if you called them a bigot, they'd be shocked. Yet, that's what it is; bigotry.
We make mistakes. Unlike most other countries, we put it right on the news in the open. Our seditious, are socialists, our young America-haters are out in the open, not packed away in jails like in many countries.
We catch our criminals in government, in the military, rare as they are, and prosecute. We don't bury the story, hide the evidence. Our system won't allow one person to get away with it. Dictatorship do.
77% of our country claims in a recent poll, the most of any country in the world, to be proud of their country.
National shame is the idea that we should be ashamed of that. That would be a national shame.
2007-07-20 13:34:56 · answer #6 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes. Good question.
I don't believe that my vote ******* matters at all, but I still do it.
It's time to start a gay militia and overthrow the gov.
Eviscerate the bureaucrat!
2007-07-20 14:05:30 · answer #7 · answered by JY. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you vote for your future and your child future
2007-07-20 15:35:19 · answer #8 · answered by fuzzy_zack 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you really think the Americans have any shame??
2007-07-20 14:40:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not impeaching Bush and Cheney immediately, considering all their many crimes.
2007-07-20 13:19:09 · answer #10 · answered by daibato 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋