The Promise Never Achieved by Those Who Succeeded Our Founding Fathers
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart
The greatest weakness in humans is the reason why America
has never been a great nation. It is the most common evil inherent to every
culture, every race, and every man and woman claiming to be religious. Prejudice
in its many forms reveals ignorance and the need to feel superior to others.
Prejudices including racism, bigotry, misogyny, and
religious extremism prevent the most important promise in the first line of the
second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: equality for everyone.
A PREVIOUSLY INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT IS NOW THE MOST CORRUPT
IN THE WORLD
Our government has failed its people in many ways. A massive
increase in gun violence began in 2017, could be ended with a single vote, and
would in no way violate the Second Amendment. Our country has never demanded
fair taxation. 95 percent of the 6,871 page tax code includes measures which
allow the wealthy to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. As long as our
nation’s big businesses continue to have lobbies influencing votes in the
legislature, the majority will be cast aside on the floor of the Capitol
Building. The Electoral College negates the value of millions of voters and
their opinions every four years. People are not equal to the rights of the
States. Women have been fighting for equality for 250 years. In 2022, when six
corrupt members of the Supreme Court nullified a woman’s right to make choices
about her own physical and mental health, they lost more ground. Minorities,
Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and
others, continue to be ignored. Their fight for equality continues. One half of
our government and our people believe that Christianity should be the only
religion in America, although it is in direct opposition to the First
Amendment. The guarantee of equality for all religions, and the rights of those
who reject all organized religion, are paramount to maintaining American
values. Our government is divided by red and blue states, and therefore divided
between the demands of a few and the right to equality for everyone.
THE 21ST CENTURY IS REGRESSIVE, NOT PROGRESSIVE
Beginning with the 2000 election, the United States began to
move backwards, refusing to join the rest of developed nations. There is
nothing in the Constitution which allows the Supreme Court to decide a
presidential election. Tens of millions of voters were denied their right to
equal representation. The election became purely political in nature.
Our government received confirmation that the 2016 election
was under attack. Trump’s puppeteer, Vladimir Putin, was making a huge effort
to ensure a victory for the orange buffoon. However, our leaders agreed not to
allow this fact to be passed on to the voting public. Trump’s victory was
rigged by our own government.
The fact that the mainstream media supported Trump, combined
with the beliefs of young, male Americans that women were not equal to men, were
major deficits to Hillary Clinton’s efforts to become our first woman
president.
INDIVIDUAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEGATED WHEN ANYONE IS DENIED
ABSOLUTE EQUALITY
Freedom does not exist in a society where certain groups are
denied absolute equality. This fact proves that our people are misled by our
government constantly. This one fact proves that the statement, “America is the
greatest country in the world,” is a farce.
Major income inequality refutes the lie that “America is the
richest country in the world.”
Facts and the truth cause emotional and sometimes physical
pain, but they cannot and must not be denied.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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Sources: britannica.com: Text of
the Declaration of Independence
theguardian.com: The American myth
always came at someone’s expense
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