p.2 #4 · Celebrating 250 Years (and This Community)!
How patronising! The USA is a Democracy! People are free to have an OPPOSITE point of view and to voice there opinions, as we do here in the United Kingdom, unlike Russia: if the majority don't agree with the Government the electorate are FREE to vote in people with different ideas !
Viva! USA! Viva Democracy! whatever their point of view!
p.2 #5 · Celebrating 250 Years (and This Community)!
zeitlos wrote:
Thank you, Fred, for starting this thread — and congratulations on this forum’s own remarkable milestone. As a European, and especially as a German, I have many reasons to celebrate America and to be grateful for what it has given to the world: freedom, creativity, culture, science, generosity — and, for us in Germany, the chance to rebuild in peace and democracy after our darkest chapter. At the same time, I would not be honest if I did not say that this anniversary also makes me deeply sad. Many of us grew up seeing the United States as a friend, a partner, and a moral reference point. The new course America has taken makes that much harder to feel today. So I celebrate America with gratitude and affection — but also with real concern, and with the sincere hope that the best of America will prevail. ...Show more →
Many of us here in America share your concern about this "new course" but it is only temporary so don't give up on us.
Brent
