With all this Obama talk -- I found this cool site...

[Ankesh]

I think everything is biased. There can't be a piece of writing that isn't biased. Not possible.

So that wasn't my problem with the article you shared TW. My problem was innaccuracies. Let me just note down one of the innaccuracies.

That understanding led them to create for the first time in history a government built out of and respecting these universal rights of man, a government that was "of, by, and for" the people, not the other way around.

Emphasis mine. America wasn't the first democracy. But whoever believes that it is the first democracy has no historical perspective.

Now go back in history. And see why the other democracies failed. And you'll find that it was because either the society tried to be fair all the time. Or it tried for equality all the time.

As an individual, I demand fairness. I'm a libertarian at heart. But I can see the big picture. If the society is fair all the time, it will break down. Because you can't have a hand with 4 average sized fingers and one finger 3 feet long. (Concurrently, you can't have a hand with all the fingers exactly similar. A balance has to be found.)

Oh - and if the constitution was perfect - it would never have required amendments.

And as my fav humourist says:

I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes. - Scott Adams

You may personally not like it. But you have to understand that if the society doesn't try to balance itself by trying to bring equality some of the time, it will break down.

Your passion is good TW. But you have to try to figure out how to make the best of things when the society tries to go the equality way for some time. Instead of spending all your energy in talking about fairness and just getting frustrated. The time for fairness will come too.