HOW STUPID IS THE SOUND BITE GENERATION?

We have not been a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC since 1867 when we ignored our constitution for martial law over the 13 southern states in-equalities during Reconstruction. During this same period they removed original amendments which were inconvenient for a military dictatorship over an occupied defeated enemy which had been in effect for nearly 50 years.The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment occurred during a period in U.S. history known as the Reconstruction. In this era, the South was placed under military occupation by the North, and African Americans realized some short-term benefits. We have been a imperialistic nation fueled by a war lord economy based on a military industrial complex unequaled in the world. Thinking we are free is a delusion thinking we are a democracy with multiple choices from those who processed us guided us as sheep to the slaughter is comical to pretend any different. We did not know what to do with freedom so they took it away gave us TV instead.