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Originally Posted by Skybird
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.
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How things ought to be and how they are are always two different things. Let's not dwell on the obvious.
What I was discussing was not us thinking as "supremacists", it was to show how we think of our Constitution and our relationship with our government. Which, considering our history which is unique (as every nation has a unique history), is special. Special being unique and different, not supremacist. Not sure how you drew that conclusion from what I said. Supremacist would be more of how the Germans saw themselves compared to the Herero and Namaqua who lived in
Deutsch-Südwestafrika.