Most American Thing I Can Do

Most American Thing I Can Do

The most American thing I can do is to simply ask questions. Why are we at war? Why do we pay taxes? We do we support democracy in fledgling countries? We are a democratic nation. Does that not mean the government and this country belong to me as much as to the president? If we stop asking questions about what is essentially ours, do we not essentially give it away? I have a right to know what is going on, where we are headed, and what we stand for. I will eventually pay taxes, support the economy, and vote for government officials. I wish to go to college so that I may not only be able to support myself, and maybe a family, but to help support a nation. What the government forgets is that we own the country, not them. There are thousands more citizens outside of office. And the thousands can easily rise to take out a tyrannical government. Why are we still voting for a one elected official to run one-third of our government, someone who will get barely half the votes, when something that already exists could take the form of our executive branch? I really feel our government is outdated and relies too much on a singular entity to make decisions for a populace that many did not even vote for. Why not call for the president to be replaced by a true representation of the people? That true representation, of course, is the people themselves. With the newest forms of communication, i.e. the Internet, the people could vote on everything, instead of enlisting some government bureaucrat, who had lived off old money his entire life, attended some Ivy League school, is a lawyer, and/or major contributions to the country thus far are some mild-mannered amendment to some obscure law that never affected anyone anyways. All I'm saying is that questions are not fear mongering or unpatriotic, they are in essence what makes this country continue to thrive and be a success and dominant force