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Originally Posted by eskielover
Instead we are ALL being made slaves to the government.....I don't want to be owned & controlled by the government thank you.....& the Wealthy white male land-owning slaveowners was IN THE SOUTH....not all over the country if you remember your history correctly. And those were NOT the people who set up the government of our country.
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You don't seem to remember our history correctly. The original Constitution limited voting rights to men. Men who held property. The Constitution did not make slavery illegal. Originally, the economies of all thirteen colonies relied on slavery. George Washington himself owned hundreds of slaves.
The US Constitution is a
living document. It can be changed (amended) for the better, and by and large it has been changed for the better. Constitutional amendments are the reasons that slavery is no longer legal, that all citizens can vote, that all citizens have civil rights.
Okay, so much for history.
We aren't being made slaves of the government. The government, if you mean the federal government, is an entity that is neither inherently good nor inherently bad. It
is a necessity. But it is no longer functioning as intended. It is controlled by the wealthy. That... is the problem. Who changed that? Rich white (and black) men.