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Originally Posted by areo16
You are taking the Bill of Rights out of its context, which is a document which guards the rights of man from the abuses of government.
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Watching the state of things nowadays, it does a lousy job in that. Which is no wonder, since it is only ink on paper, and since many many decades open for abuse and violation. I agree with the ideals (at least with most, but where it formulates the wish for a state to govern people I necessarily disagree), but I also realise that these ideals today play no really influential role anymore, and get bypassed and violated by political actors and economic lobbies if they see their interests served by that. I see the huge discrepancy between how the world should be, and how it is.
It's not different in Germany as well. Over here, the Basic Law, laws and treaties get constantly violated, too. For opportunistic reasons, and because the actors get away with it. Same on EU level. The US story just fits into the bigger international trend. Sorry, nothing special there, but the same systematic erosion being done like anywhere else. Believing that one is the most special people in the world, does not change that, it is just a supremacist belief like so many others as well.