a slap on the faces of patriotic citizens

[Volimack]

there is absolutely nothing wrong in critizing your leader. criticism is part of democracy but when you call your country a zoo and all sorts of names and regret being a citizen, you have crossed the redline.
   I also have no problem with some people's vituperation and hate over there country but to suddenly decide to serve the same country you hate is hypocrisy of the highest order. and such people will have nothing to offer.they want to make use of the government to gain there own personal subscription, if appointed at the end. Because there are enemies of the country.

You can criticize the people of a country there is nothing wrong here. As a citizen of the country you can do everything but it will be your determination for the country where you live. But here the government will play a face role the criticism of the leaders will be less because of corruption they will have more impact later. Leaders have increased their power by pushing the country's society to death on the battlefield for ages.

[teamsherry]

there is absolutely nothing wrong in critizing your leader. criticism is part of democracy but when you call your country a zoo and all sorts of names and regret being a citizen, you have crossed the redline.
   I also have no problem with some people's vituperation and hate over there country but to suddenly decide to serve the same country you hate is hypocrisy of the highest order. and such people will have nothing to offer.they want to make use of the government to gain there own personal subscription, if appointed at the end. Because there are enemies of the country.

I would definitely criticise any bad leader or government that I I know isn't doing their job well, you can't promise the world and go there and do nothing, it's right to criticise bad leadership to bring their error to their notice. And if in the process you get angry enough to hate the country there is no problem expressing yourself in that way, and if eventually after a while you notice good changes and decide to serve your country all over, then your not bad just a better citizen than others that did nothing.

[Bushdark]

there is absolutely nothing wrong in critizing your leader. criticism is part of democracy but when you call your country a zoo and all sorts of names and regret being a citizen, you have crossed the redline.
   I also have no problem with some people's vituperation and hate over there country but to suddenly decide to serve the same country you hate is hypocrisy of the highest order. and such people will have nothing to offer.they want to make use of the government to gain there own personal subscription, if appointed at the end. Because there are enemies of the country.

Everyone has their own opinion so anybody can say what they like which is left to them the consequences they might faces.
It is better we respect our various countries because this is the only way to serve the nation and keep trying to see things get better.
We don't have to pose like we are the only one the bad society is affecting, everyone is facing it and we need to be wise and keep up to doing the good works that will induce others to follow the ama patter instead of causing problems ups and downs.

[Zoomic]

there is absolutely nothing wrong in critizing your leader. criticism is part of democracy but when you call your country a zoo and all sorts of names and regret being a citizen, you have crossed the redline.
   I also have no problem with some people's vituperation and hate over there country but to suddenly decide to serve the same country you hate is hypocrisy of the highest order. and such people will have nothing to offer.they want to make use of the government to gain there own personal subscription, if appointed at the end. Because there are enemies of the country.

I would definitely criticise any bad leader or government that I I know isn't doing their job well, you can't promise the world and go there and do nothing, it's right to criticise bad leadership to bring their error to their notice. And if in the process you get angry enough to hate the country there is no problem expressing yourself in that way, and if eventually after a while you notice good changes and decide to serve your country all over, then your not bad just a better citizen than others that did nothing.

Just like OP has said, there is nothing wrong in criticising a bad government but you must be careful not to give a destructive kind of of criticism. You criticise with facts so you do not not get charged for defamation of character because no law will protect you if you are actually engaging in a destructive criticism against the government. You should also be away of the system of government your country practices,  some governments will not permit any form of public opinion.  But, as far as democracy is concerned, every citizen has the right to criticize a government that is not living up to expectations. Constructive criticisms serves as a reminder to them that people are actually watching.

[jrrsparkles]

there is absolutely nothing wrong in critizing your leader. criticism is part of democracy but when you call your country a zoo and all sorts of names and regret being a citizen, you have crossed the redline.
   I also have no problem with some people's vituperation and hate over there country but to suddenly decide to serve the same country you hate is hypocrisy of the highest order. and such people will have nothing to offer.they want to make use of the government to gain there own personal subscription, if appointed at the end. Because there are enemies of the country.

Everyone has their own opinion so anybody can say what they like which is left to them the consequences they might faces.
It is better we respect our various countries because this is the only way to serve the nation and keep trying to see things get better.
We don't have to pose like we are the only one the bad society is affecting, everyone is facing it and we need to be wise and keep up to doing the good works that will induce others to follow the ama patter instead of causing problems ups and downs.

If you are a common man then most likely you will not be allowed to criticize your leader, the government will supress the idea directly or indirectly once they saw it's gaining attention. There is no freedom of speech anywhere but it varies from one to another country. We can't do anything at all other than accepting and learn to live with it.

[knowngunman]

If you are a common man then most likely you will not be allowed to criticize your leader, the government will supress the idea directly or indirectly once they saw it's gaining attention. There is no freedom of speech anywhere but it varies from one to another country. We can't do anything at all other than accepting and learn to live with it.

It does not matter whether you are a common person or a man of caliber, criticism ought to be constructive when talking to people of the authority. No leader will tolerate abusive criticism from anyone regardless of what the criticism is all about. Democracy guarantee freedom of speech but it doesn't guarantee your freedom after speech. Criticism is very necessary in every sane society to help improve effective governance but some of the critics lack the proper wisdom of communication, their criticism always comes in the form of attack with vulgar and abusive words while they disregard the respect for the office or the officer they are criticizing. Responsible leaders are ready to welcome a constructive criticism and take correction but when you disguise to insult your leaders and hide under criticism, you deserve any treatment that comes afterwards

[Jewan420]

Criticizing the leader is legal and a right of the people in democracies. Although the critics against the country's government are in the minority, their eloquence is high. Criticizing the country is by no means wise. The country will look as beautiful as you decorate it. A country cannot be organized by the country and the government, of course the role of the people is the most important here. Criticizing the country means criticizing yourself. And a wise person never criticizes himself.

[ferida504]

In a real and ideal situation, those who criticize government are suppose to be those allowed to show what they have to offer because it may seem that they have better idea. I said ideal because assuming the system is not corrupt, so that they can genuinely offer something positive to growth of the country but the problem is when such person get into power or government and meet bad system, they eat their words and start doing same thing that they have criticized or they are frustrated out of the system by those who are feeding from the corrupt system.

Even though the government already has a strong system, there are still errors and fraud, this is where the activists and the community come to criticize it, because without criticizing sometimes the government has unknowingly made rules that are not pro-people. actually the criticism is to develop in a better direction, what the community feels is not comparable to the rules made by the government sometimes. even demonstrations are also important and regulated in world law

[Uhwuchukwu53]

there is absolutely nothing wrong in critizing your leader. criticism is part of democracy but when you call your country a zoo and all sorts of names and regret being a citizen, you have crossed the redline.
   I also have no problem with some people's vituperation and hate over there country but to suddenly decide to serve the same country you hate is hypocrisy of the highest order. and such people will have nothing to offer.they want to make use of the government to gain there own personal subscription, if appointed at the end. Because there are enemies of the country.

Absolutely agree with you , criticism is way of passing information to our leaders on what is affecting the citizens, that they are not doing right. if done constructively, although not all criticism can be of positive one because criticism it'self is always a negative signal but one should not go to the extreme. That can make even what he /she is criticizing will turn out to affect him negatively.

There is one thing I observed about critics they always have reason to criticize weather good or bad but in the aspect of most criticism it's centered on bad leader not able to handle the basics need if the citizens,any government that failed on it responsibility should not expect praise than criticism.

[Zanab247]

We won't continue to live in fear without speaking our minds and telling the government how bad they have treated its citizens

Voicing out how terrible the government is will just get you out of nowhere if you're in a country that doesn't give importance to democracy. While it's a law and freedom to speak out what they're doing badly, the people that are in the seat vary. There are leaders who are happy to listen to their people and what they're doing wrongly. But there goes those who see criticisms as something bad and won't take them lightly to improve their administration. Luckily we're democratic and we've got freedom of choice and to speak whatever opinion we've got as a support or as oppose to the current administration and government that we're living it. Think of it as a privilege and not everyone equally gets that.

Where democracy is truly working in a country, you will see leaders be happy when they see criticism from their followers for some areas they are not doing well in their various offices, so that they will take correction to improve and you will begin to see the country progress.

Government officials that don't allow criticism in their country, there is no way you will not see corruption around their country because they feel that is the way to lead people, not knowing that they are destroying the country for not allow criticism.

Many people have the law that stated that people have the freedom of speech, but there are some countries in the world, you cannot criticize any government officials in the country and if you do they will use their Arm forces to arrest you to teach you some lessons with their political powers.

[BADecker]

Ayn Rand was a woman who defected from Russia to the US in 1926. She was politically smart, having lived through the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Read about Ayn Rand here - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ayn+rand&ia=web

Regarding this topic, here are her answers regarding Democracy and Republic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV5arQxexyg.

If you are a 14th Amendment citizen of the US, your status in America is different than if you are simply a man/woman living on the land of America. How do you become a citizen of the US? By accepting that you are being called a citizen by the US government, because you signed up for some benefit from government.

Just remember, you are NOT a US citizen until you agree with government that you are. The 'person' named on the paperwork that you signed is a separate person. You are a man/woman. And when the salesmen (the courts) trick you into saying that you are a citizen - saying that you are that 'person' listed on the paperwork - what can government do but honor what you said?... at least until you contradict what you said in the right way.

If your signature isn't on the document that has your name on it, that 'person' is not one of your persons. Fourth Amendment:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Are you secure in your persons? If the court document has your name on it, but you haven't agreed that it is one of your persons, somebody has stolen one (or more) of your persons, and adapted it to make a new fake person. Then they try to get you to agree that their created person is you.

Think about this, and then stand up to the Democracy by remaining within the Republic. How to remain in the Republic? Don't agree that you are the person on their document. Then sue the judge and the attorney for stealing your persons and adapting them for their own use, which is against the 4th Amendment.

This is the reason why the US has become as strong as it has. If this was taught in school, the US would have remained honorable, as well.

[Hispo]

Today people on Twitter/X were feeling what many of them considered to be a slap on their face, as the speaker of the house Mike Johnson seems to have allowed for more aid for Ukraine and Israel to be send, even though he had declared it was not okey to send help abroad without securing the border of the United States with Mexico.
Thousands of people feeling what they would call a slap on their faces as 60 billion dollars of people's money are going to be send in form of military equiments and weapons for allies of the USA to defend themselves against terrorists and an aggressive big country as Russia is.

It had been months since the last package of aid for Ukraine, let us see how long Mike Johnson can keep his position as speaker of the house after this debacle and assumed treason from him to the core of the MAGA movement. Even though I believe it is important for USA to help allies, I would not blame anyone who feels this amount of resources being sent abroad as a slap on the face.

What do you all think about the happenings of today in the Capitol of the USA?

[teamsherry]

there is absolutely nothing wrong in critizing your leader. criticism is part of democracy but when you call your country a zoo and all sorts of names and regret being a citizen, you have crossed the redline.
   I also have no problem with some people's vituperation and hate over there country but to suddenly decide to serve the same country you hate is hypocrisy of the highest order. and such people will have nothing to offer.they want to make use of the government to gain there own personal subscription, if appointed at the end. Because there are enemies of the country.

Everyone has their own opinion so anybody can say what they like which is left to them the consequences they might faces.
It is better we respect our various countries because this is the only way to serve the nation and keep trying to see things get better.
We don't have to pose like we are the only one the bad society is affecting, everyone is facing it and we need to be wise and keep up to doing the good works that will induce others to follow the ama patter instead of causing problems ups and downs.

If you are a common man then most likely you will not be allowed to criticize your leader, the government will supress the idea directly or indirectly once they saw it's gaining attention. There is no freedom of speech anywhere but it varies from one to another country. We can't do anything at all other than accepting and learn to live with it.

Yeah that's very true but there are ways that you can raise points and your voice may be heard, often times I've seen many less influential and common persons make remarks about the government on radio that lasts for weeks and months and many people hear about it and the government has no other choice but to act rightly about it to prevent some kind of protest.

One thing I believe is the power of a united citizen can counter that of the government, if majority were to stand against the government they would mostly likely win, but that would never happen under the watchful eyes of the government they bless some people to stand and give positive testimonials about their work and when such protest were to occur you would have a divided house amongst citizens.

[jrrsparkles]

One thing I believe is the power of a united citizen can counter that of the government, if majority were to stand against the government they would mostly likely win, but that would never happen under the watchful eyes of the government they bless some people to stand and give positive testimonials about their work and when such protest were to occur you would have a divided house amongst citizens.

Governments will not allow such kind of protest in the first place, at rare situations it might get out of their hands with the help of social media which unite the people from everywhere around but those kinds of solutions for every problem we face is not realistic either cause everyone has to live their life and can't protest on streets every day that's where the democracy wins even if the parties failed to fulfil the people needs they still go on and win elections.