Broken Government

[GMDino]

I'm dropping this here because in a discussion about it and how people (white people) always "cared" about those things and fought against blacks having equal rights or women getting equal rights I posted the following thought about our country:

Quote:It is my understanding that this country was founded by men who wanted freedom. They felt they could not lead their lives the way they wanted under the rule of England.


Unfortunately that freedom was for...men. Specifically white men.

Then for the next 244 years we (slowly) expanded that "God given" freedom to others: women, minorities, homosexuals.

And every step of the way the people who wanted go without being oppressed and started a war to live that way fought it when other just wanted to be equal. Not better than...just equal.

Quote:--->We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.<---

It's just taken over two centuries to get closer to "all men" meaning "all citizens".

To Matt's point we have changed the country/government/constitution many, many, many times.   It's just that the resistance to change is always there by those who feel they will lose power.  Which I get.  But if the move is toward equality and being better I just don't understand the argument.