Country, or party?
2007-09-28 06:49:18 · 11 answers · asked by steddy voter 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The reason I asked this, is because there seem to be some people that are so bent on attacking party, and anyone of another party, that they forget we are a country first (in my humble opinion), and are all Americans. Thank you for restoring my faith in fellow Americans!
2007-09-28 07:05:02 · update #1
Well, I believe we are all in this together. "United we stand, Divided we fall". However, even as a united country we are not always going to agree. There are differences between pointing out discrepancies, or questioning that which you don't agree with and engaging in attack strategies. Partisan politics is a waste of time in general. All it does is serve to keep us divided. It is perpetuated and encouraged by our political leaders. The reason is because it keeps us focused on sniping with each other, rather than uniting against common problems we share which no one is doing anything to resolve. I am and always will be an American first. As for party, I am an independent, so they can both rot for all I care.
2007-09-28 07:29:50 · answer #1 · answered by Bryan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Country
2007-09-28 13:54:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
In direct context to what I have gathered from your question, -nation first-, but in a larger context....
"THE Great Being, wishing to reveal the prerequisites of the peace and tranquillity of the world and the advancement of its peoples, hath written: The time must come when the imperative necessity for the holding of a vast, an all-embracing assemblage of men will be universally realized. The rulers and kings of the earth must needs attend it, and, participating in its deliberations, must consider such ways and means as will lay the foundations of the world's Great Peace amongst men. Such a peace demandeth that the Great Powers should resolve, for the sake of the tranquillity of the peoples of the earth, to be fully reconciled among themselves. Should any king take up arms against another, all should unitedly arise and prevent him. If this be done, the nations of the world will no longer require any armaments, except for the purpose of preserving the security of their realms and of maintaining internal order within their territories. This will ensure the peace and composure of every people, government and nation. We fain would hope that the kings and rulers of the earth, the mirrors of the gracious and almighty name of God, may attain unto this station, and shield mankind from the onslaught of tyranny.... The day is approaching when all the peoples of the world will have adopted one universal language and one common script. When this is achieved, to whatsoever city a man may journey, it shall be as if he were entering his own home. These things are obligatory and absolutely essential. It is incumbent upon every man of insight and understanding to strive to translate that which hath been written into reality and action.... That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith: Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth. In another passage He hath proclaimed: It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.
THE All-Knowing Physician hath His finger on the pulse of mankind. He perceiveth the disease, and prescribeth, in His unerring wisdom, the remedy. Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
We can well perceive how the whole human race is encompassed with great, with incalculable afflictions. We see it languishing on its bed of sickness, sore-tried and disillusioned. They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy. They have conceived the straight to be crooked, and have imagined their friend an enemy."
(Baha'u'llah, The Proclamation of Baha'u'llah, p. 114)
2007-09-28 15:01:43 · answer #3 · answered by Gravitar or not... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Country. Political parties come and go.
2007-09-28 14:09:16 · answer #4 · answered by slykitty62 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Neither, Family. A presidential candidate that has the same stand on family would be a candidate that I could get behind. My husband is an army veteran. My father is an airforce veteran. I am all too aware of the fact that the US government and the people of this country think that veterans are throw aways. They get substandard care while they are in the military and almost no care when they are out of the military.
2007-09-28 13:57:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Definitely country.
2007-09-28 13:56:14 · answer #6 · answered by GoYankees&Giants! 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My country. The USA. Not Iraq, not afganistan. Home.
2007-09-28 13:55:50 · answer #7 · answered by Rosebee 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Children.
2007-09-28 13:52:07 · answer #8 · answered by Darth Vader 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
it should always be country first to bad, it doesn't happen
2007-09-28 14:07:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Country, and the party that is the best for the country is anything on the right!
2007-09-28 13:56:05 · answer #10 · answered by Ninja Rabbit 007 4 · 2⤊ 8⤋