Quote Originally Posted by epxroot
I respect your response and your stance on the subject. I understand the system that we are under, but the free republic which is the system that we were intended to be under has been taken away from us. How can we as americans keep funding this war and not even raise an eye to the fact that we can't say when we leave and when we don't? I just don't understand how we can wake up in the morning and just go on about our day as if we don't even know that 1000's of innocent humans are being killed, and that 1000's of them have no where to sleep. Hey though as long as we have are sports, cars, clothes, gadgets, and titty bars who cares.

I am not arguing your point I am just stating that somthing is really wrong with our current system. If 51% rule over the 49% who gets to decide who is in what group?

You and I are on the same page them Epxroot. While there may be no such legal obligations, you're absolutely right that the system needs a major revamp and people need more say in something like a drawn-out international war.

I've always believed both in Canada and America that our democracies are a bit too representative, and need more of a direct aspect. And infact I'd say America is more democratic in the sense that you guys tend to hold more votes on issues like legalizing weed in Nevada, whereas Canadians are always 100% dependant on the choices of their elected officials. Which is stupid because constitutionally we do have a right to establish ballot initiates, it just never seems to happen.