Is it time to take America back?

I am not sure what or where we need to take our country back from. “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those others that have been tried.” (Winston Churchill). What it is, governance is messy. What confuses me is that 95% of House incumbents and 82% of Senate incumbents were reelected yet during that same election Congress had a solid 16% approval rating. And this was all achieved with a 36% voter turnout which coincidentally was the worst turnout since World War II. We seem to complain nationally but reelect locally.

As far as I could find there have been four instances where the Electoral College and the popular vote did not go the same direction, three of those were back in the 1800s the fourth would have put Al Gore into office over G. W. Bush. I wonder how history would a played out from there? All it really does is serve to protect a two party system and we would probably benefit from some changes there. I think a better question would be, where is the integrity in our news media? They pander to the mob.

I disagree SFC Collin McMillion, the United States was established as a country whose continuation or change were ultimately the right of the citizen. From the preamble of The Declaration of Independence,

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

While this was written to the King of England, the principle does not change. We have taken an Oath to uphold the Constitution, a document which was borne from the same principles. I think if we are going to be a nation that prides ourselves on "freedom", shouldn't we respect the freedom of a citizen's right to choose their government? If a majority have found the system to be broke, why should their solution be discounted because it is revolutionary and different? I don't agree that the states should in any way disband, but I do think it's hypocritical to pick and choose which acts are okay to be left to free will. It's the same reason I think Afghanistan has been a failure in some respects, we've forced them to choose a democracy. That's not freedom or democratic, that's authoritarian disguised. It's no surprise to me then that many of them do not see the benefit of it, because they were given no choice.

Anyway, I didn't intend this to be rude, I just wanted to offer a different perspective. Have a good day.

It used to be, "the United States are..." Now it is "the United States is..." We have veered from what a republic is supposed to be. No longer do we, as a State, have the ability to recall our Senators - it used to be such because they were appointed by the governor & if they lost approval of the people the governor would recall them. The Senators nixed that by declaring they must be elected to terms.

I believe a few years ago there was a Russian sociologist-type that stated that eventually the United States would break up & form several different nations. Of course, that was ludicrous when he said that...