First, you fundamentally misunderstand the American form of government. If you had read our founding documents, you would have quickly discover that you are barking up the wrong tree.
Full disclosure: I'm a third year International Law major and "American Law 1 & 2" are 4 credit hours each during year 2, so I can assure you I have indeed read, studied, analyzed, critiqued, and compared your founding documents more thoroughly than most Americans have.
You see, you should be asking the three letter agencies why they are not in compliance with Romans 13.
I'm going to put aside your sneering and condescending tone for a minute and ask "what evidence do you have to support this accusation?" Because I hear this repeated ad nauseum and have never seen it backed up with any conclusive facts other than sensationalism from pundits like Tucker Carlson.
Our founding documents clearly and unambiguously state that We The People are the sovereigns
No, they don't. They state that you, the people, CHOOSE the sovereigns. And the purpose of the government's existence is, and I quote, "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to [yourselves] and [your] posterity. So, other than a high-handed attempt to pretend that "Oh, this yuro-peeyin don't know what she's yappin' about so I'mma give 'er a piece o' my 'Murican mind," I don't see where you're going with this. Your government charter (the Constitution) and the documents which led up to it, guarantee the People's right to choose who makes the laws, not to simply ignore those laws whenever you wish. Reference the Mayflower Compact, the first document that EVER chartered a representative government of any kind in North America. "Choose from among you such elders as may seem most fit to lead, and when you have chosen them
then render them all due submission."
Oh, do they not teach that in American schools?
By the way, the principles Jefferson and Hamilton derived that concept from were called "The Enlightenment," which was an idea born in Eastern Europe, so you're not winning any arguments by pretending like representative government or individual rights are something America invented and gave to the world. They're not. They're something Europe invented and taught to America.
Our government is supposed to have virtually zero influence in our day to day lives, see the founding documents. I’m guessing that they don’t teach much about those in European schools?
And it does. As to the arrogant remarks afterward, see previous disclaimer about being a third year law major and knowing your founding documents better than any American I've met.
Yes America has problems, but aren’t you from Ukraine? When was the last time that Ukraine or Europe in general got anything right? Seems like every American generation for the last century has had to either pay some part of Europe’s bill or had to physically pull all ya’lls collective rear ends out of the proverbial fires that Europeans started.
Yes, I am from Ukraine. And as such, I've seen the emptiness of American promises. I've seen a handful of Americans, more courageous than anything I can imagine, coming across the world to live up to JFK's "support any friend, oppose any foe" ideal, while I've heard toothless bumpkins from America's so-called "heartland" say with a straight face that the army who bombed my church, tortured and murdered my pastor, and massacred the congregation after raping every woman and child in it, was "defending Christianity." I've seen what American courage can do, in the few American hearts where it still exists. I didn't marry an American who already had two wives because it was "cool" or "trendy" after all, because believe me, it's not. But I've also seen how easy it is to get the rank and file of America to fall in line behind the purest evil imaginable as long as it's draped in a flag and blaring the Star-Spangled Banner loudly enough.
"When was the last time Ukraine or Europe in general got anything right" you ask? Our poorest countries have infrastructure that is a century ahead of anything America can boast. You have no public transportation system. At all. I don't mean yours is weak, I mean it doesn't exist. Even third world India and Pakistan surpass America in that. Your schools produce graduates who can't read their own diplomas while the average European fifth grader is quadrilingual. I could go on but I'm not interested in getting into the competition. I don't remember a single time when America has "paid Europe's bill." With the EU having 135% of America's GDP, we've been paying yours. Ask your principal creditor, China. As to your claim that America has "bailed Europe out of problems we started," as one who lost three uncles fighting America's war in Iraq that had nothing to do with us, I'm dying to know where you dug up this notion.
Your vitriolic remarks here are a fine example of the point I made later, about America's insistence on crucifying anyone who dares reprimand you. Might I counsel you to borrow a Bible from someone who actually owns one and look up Proverbs 15:31-33?
Frankly, the chest-beating American jingoism I'm reading here sounds so much like the self-deifying nonsense I hear from Russia and China that I'm beginning to see my husband was right. Coming to America is going to be a bad idea. But allow me to present, briefly, a handful of facts.
Since 2008, the number of Americans applying for visas abroad has exceeded the number of immigrants (legal or illegal) seeking to enter the U.S. In other words, more people are fleeing America than entering it. You have become, as Deuteronomy 28 warned, "a byword among nations." And no, it's not your government that the nations are shaking our heads at. Your government is the envy of the world. What the rest of the world is looking at and wondering "what on Earth are they doing," is the American People themselves. I've never seen a more bloodthirsty, riotous People! And the ones who are the first to demonstrate this Moabite spirit of rebelliousness and violence, is always the ones in America who CLAIM to be Christian. Exhibit A, your own remarks quoted herein. You say often that you would lie to see the return of Godly governance in America. In every book of both Testaments, the first and foremost step toward returning to God was submission. How do you propose to regain Godly and Righteous governance with the mindset of "when we 'lect 'dem polly-tishins, we ain't gon' do nothin' they say 'less-in' it's what we figger we want."
Like most of the world, I do admire America, at least what it used to be. And like most of Europe, I do want to see America return to a leadership role in the world, provided it is willing to step up, grow up, and sober up. But only God Himself can make that happen, and if you want Him to do so then reflect on the fact that the only place in the Bible where the line "every man did as he liked" appears, is in the Book of Judges, the darkest days of early Israel. A society that cannot even submit to the leaders they themselves chose, cannot pretend to be in submission to God, and a society that is not in submission to the God who made His own hand so obvious in their own genesis, will never be blessed by God.
Now go ahead. Rant and rail and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about because I'm "just a dumb European girl." Or maybe, just maybe, actually muster the courage to subject your own soul to some examination. Because it isn't the Governments job to put righteousness back into American society. that burden falls squarely upon the shoulders of "You, the People."
[My wife says, 'that might be too colloquial'...]
