Each of your charges is valid, save perhaps the tongue-in-cheek one about the lycra shorts. I'll spare it argument though, becuase it was amusing.It's no secret that the American government, as applied, has become something of a sort that its Founding Fathers would have opposed. Perhaps it would have been wiser, as Thomas Jefferson once proposed, that a "sunset clause" be built into the US Constitution, so that each generation can have the pleasure of rewriting it anew. A check box on the voting form to "Disband present government" might not be all that bad of an idea either. It would spare us bloody revolution in the case of widespread unrest.
I don't think its the statements of the Declaration that you disagree with, if so I question your notions of fairness. But if you question the hypocrisy in current American policy with regard to the letter of our most significant legal documents, I will readily nod my assent.
Powerful people, somewhere, are making very bad mistakes.
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