Has America outgrown Freedom and the Constitution?

Question

Have we become an uncontrollable society that has to be policed 24 hrs a day, before you say no think about all the chaos that goes on in our day to day lives. You know the list.... natural disasters, kids getting shot at school, drugs and immigrants flooding the country. You have to admit things have really gone to hell. Is this the reason we feel these changes in our government now? Isn't it inevitable that the government is going to take complete control? Be honest.

Answer 1

aside from natural disasters, it seems to me if people obeyed the constitution we would not have the problems you listed, but, getting people to obey the laws is getting to be old fashioned i guess

Answer 2

If you think America is bad try Baghdad. Does all this chaos in America really happen in our day to day lives, or just on CNN and FOX? If you ask me (and you did) we're living pretty cushy lives when one collapsed bridge and 6 confirmed dead can get round the clock coverage. We're a nation of 300,000,000 people and the top news story on a given day can still be Brittany Spear's hairdo. As for changes in the government. I felt something a little odd when G.W. Bush was appointed as President by five conservative members of the Supreme Court against the will of the people. IMHO we haven't outgrown freedom and the Constitution. We've just learned to take them both so much for granted that very few of us have noticed the fact they're being stolen from us. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Rumsfeld...etc, have been pushing hard to assume complete control for the last seven years (or more), and have come frighteningly close to success. Other U.S. administrations will almost certainly try to do the same. I harbor the quaint, naive notion that as long as some Americans can and do still read and remember the words of Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr, Thomas Jefferson, Gandhi and other great thinkers and peacemakers, as long as we have a Constitution that people can read and appreciate for it's elegant, simple, ethical beauty, wisdom and inherent justice. We will live in a free nation.

Answer 3

With technology and prosperity comes the responsibility to use those things correctly.

The problem is that society has lagged behind technology. People with 18th century attitudes are living in a 21st century world. This obviously causes problems.

Government can't stop such problems from happening. If the government tries too hard to clamp down, people will make use of that technology to make things even more unpleasent.

The only viable solution is to educate the next generation so that they won't make the same mistakes that the current one makes.

Answer 4

According to the right wing yes, But I still think that the people can be trusted if given the facts, not spin but real facts. But who would do a thing like that, Truth is commodity not sold in stores, so not marketed on TV nor radio. America has become Image based for marketing purposes and for control, fear, sex, glorious images all to sell us, a sense of value from external sources, rather than real values. Government works for the marketeers not the people because they are selling their product too.

Answer 5

What you speak of is Fascism. Fascism makes the trains run on time.

Why should we be controlled? The Federal Government doesn't need to protect me. Just don't stop me from protecting myself. Your Government doesn't want that. If I protect my self it cost the price of a gun and a bullet. But if they protect me I pay $10,000.00 Which they take $2,000 and give $8,000.00 to someone else to actually do the protecting. If there's a mistake they point at the company they hired and say its there fault. Reward with no risk.
The Government doesn't want control of anything but your money.

Answer 6

I believe that we must understand what Freedom truly means in order to appreciate it- and in understanding its meaning, we must also realize that with that Freedom comes responsibility when we make our own Free choices. As Blessed as this country of ours is, I believe that we take our Freedom forgranted. One never realizes just how "dear" someone or something is until they or it is gone. With that in mind, I believe that Freedom can perhaps be defined by what it is not. .& that is just this- That:

"Freedom no longer is Freedom, when rights are denied by the liberties that some would take.".

Answer 7

I don't believe changing things in the Constitution will change all the bad stuff in this world that is just an inevitable and unfortunate result of human nature.

Answer 8

yes I agree that every thing has gone to hell, but, how much of it has been inspired by our own gov,? before we started integration and kicking prayer out of school, have you not noticed our educational system has gone to hell, and our children are killing one another daily, we didn't have this in our schools before, so what do you think changed every thing? do you ever remember a shoot out at any school in America before we stopped prayer in school? do you remember any kid graduating from college that could not read or write? lets face facts, when the blacks started going to school with the whites they wanted to show off since they were so much bigger than the white kids, they disrupted classes so much they didn't learn any thing and neither did the white kids, the Teachers could not punish them as the were so big, and if they tried to expell them they played the race card and yelled prejudice, the teachers got tired of fighting this and said to hell with it , we have had to lower our scholastic scores in order to get kids in college and with affirmative action blacks went to college and graduated and never learned to read or write, and some whites did the same,now, before you holier than tho start your B.S. about race why don't you explain why we have lost so much ground in our educational system, we were always no 1 , now we are coming in at 5 to Japan, China, S,Korea, India, all supposedly 3rd world country's also , I don't doubt that the gov, planned it this way so they could take away what few freedoms we have left, as our Zionist owned gov, wants complete control.

Answer 9

We have allowed this to happen to ourselves. I think we still need to have a Constitution. I am not sure what " freedom" means, but there has not been any in this country during most of my lifetime. We may need to actually fight to restore our Constitution, if this matters to us.

Answer 10

With freedoms come responsabilities. People over time have become less responsible.