8. Causing more self-inflicted woes are your political parties unable to agree to implement spending that benefits the citizenry in effective medical care, national infrastructure, a cost-effective national security, and a judicial system that meets the needs of the citizenry.
9. Another self-inflicted woe is from some of your fellow citizens with a microphone on the radio whose pandering is replete with the phrase "America is the greatest country in the world and the sole remaining superpower." They are really saying they are the greatest citizens of the greatest country in the world when they are nothing more than the latest successor generation standing on the shoulders of others. That pesky writer, George Orwell, whose quotes keep coming up because he understood your world, wrote, "One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are NOT fighting." Maintaining and strengthening democracy in your country is more than praising it.
Apathetic citizens who believe that government has nothing to do with them and that government runs on automatic pilot are wrong. It's got everything to do with them. Flying is the greatest thing for a bird and we do not have auto-pilot and we have been around a lot longer than you. It's embarrassing being an American robin knowing the superpower country you live in can't manage so many of its own affairs very well. I can hear that pandering crowd now, that robin ought to go to Canada or any place else. They are like the Tories I read about during the revolution of 1776. Instead of trying to rebuild, refurbish, re-invigorate and reform the two party political system you continue to allow the two political parties to cement themselves to the Constitution, where the words political parties do not even exist.
Now, in our community in the park we have several political parties and we meet everyday talking to one another. We don't have lobbyists, but if we did we do not see them except in a public setting or meeting because our government and constituent business keeps us too busy. The spring is coming and it is a new day and a new dawn with warm air, blue skies and gentle breezes.
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