What ever happened to the right to dissent?

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So the spirit of democracy is alive and well in America, multi, and that's the problem.

sorry .. yes I did get that, just it seems to look like it has become something else entirely..

many Americans have taken a pass on their responsibility and willingly given up their rights to the few people who are willing to exercise them.

it would also seem that many are loosing the ability to be able to vote through certain underhanded practices (voter caging) just for being poor, transient or off overseas fighting in the Iraq war.