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@Troy your point is the key. but I Want to extend beyond Schrumpft and go into the USA itself. One of the problems is the USA people in the USA want isn't the same. Many whites still want the USA that existed before the confederacy or the usa that would had been if the confederacy won. Some people want the usa that never existed. Others do not want the USA of yore or the dream that never existed. A country of over 300 million and growing doesn't have a consensus on what they want the government to be tomorrow.

Reading the comments, I think part of the heritage of the black community in the usa is a communal heritage of being unable to eliminate/lessen/diminish individuals or groups that have minority opinions in the black community. the reasons why are historically obvious... being dominated by whites. But, black people in the usa, have always talked about getting rid of blacks who are not on the team but we never functionally did that, at least in a grand way.

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For kwanzaa in my home, we tend to give each other gifts that are modest, not always in preparation for the apocalypse or of 100% commercialism. We like books. We like eating meals together. Two of the days we give for meals cooked in the house. It isn't something uncommon, the kitchen is used throughout the year. So the simple answer to your question is the gifts as in kwanzaa past. To your next question The same or similar as in kwanaa past. Your following question is a challenge. The problem is, Kwanzaa is not a communal celebration, it is a home celebration. Many black people celebrate kwanzaa in their home, not in the black community. Harlem in NYC has HArlem Wekk, African American Day Parade, Black History Month celebrations at the Schomburg, Kwanzaa time gets symbols or celebrations out but their isn't a festival. That cultural definer. I argue that kwanzaa though meant to be a communal binder has become a symbol of the Black community in the modern USA. in that it is an individual celebration. A celebration in the home. It doesn't have that standard. I know some people who wear expensive kente cloth outfits for each day and have readings. I know some people who simply have a kanar, and that's it. It is an open celebration. I end with, if I had money , I would make a Kwanzaa communal celebration. Someone posted about st patricks day. but people forget st patricks day was originally a religious observance day for the highly catholic irish community. That then became commercialized and very statian and is now areligious as a celebration. KWanzaa didn't come from the Black church in the USA . The Black Church in the USA to my knowledge, any one help me know other, doesn't have any unique days. I think the Black church in the usa could had did better for juneteenth or at least the 13th amendment. It is funny how white churches tend to make celebrations up but black churches talk about orthodoxy. But, Kwanzaa can use with someone with money to make it a grand celebration in some city somewhere.

@anonymous50 to piggy back off of @Pioneer1 the party of abraham lincoln is making small inroads, but I want to state one key point that you don't go into , in my view at least. The population of the usa has a problem. Multiraciality. It may sound crude but the christian fable of babel has governmental value. PEople think of it in terms of many languages but I don't see the lessen in having many languages. the many languages is a cover for the deeper problem,which is, the people wants are not the same. People like to say the usa has division, meaning a split of two, di- the latin for two. but always try to chime in it is a multivision, not a division , in the usa. multi means two or more, not just two. In terms of your assessment to the party of abraham lincoln or andrew jackson, they are both caught in that problem. The populace of the usa can not be dominated by the white - anglo-christian-european descended. YEs, many states in the usa can, but not the entire populace. The USA has the most multiracial populace in humanity but with all its variance that populace still wants results and that means making bridges where none can be made. So, you end up getting the rainbows vote but never being able to provide rain for the rainbows. The populace in the USA is literally making the working cycle of the two major parties of governance in the usa. Neither said party has the members or strategy to satisfy the populace in the usa, but the populace in the usa has in the minor parties no plans or options that are viable as well. so, its a cycle of impotency in the usa.

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@ProfD well, every government in human history has dysfunction while also is a system that can operate effectively. The bottom line is the history of the USA provides all the proof to the inevitable flaws in the USA system or the populace in the usa or the fiscal capitalistic tools in the usa that can not be undone from within it. The multivision, not just division, it is more than two camps in every issue, isn't a problem in my view. It was inevitable. But one consensus does exist in the USA in a large way, and has been in existence even greater since the 1960s. And most people in the USA, I bet over 80% will confirm it on any question. You try asking the folks where you live Professor... The consensus in the USA is ... the populace in the USA can't reach consensus.

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@ProfD what can't go both ways exactly? You restated this but my point was the accountability you desire in the current governmental environment will require structural changes to parties of governance or the government itself. The current mold deletes the potential of accountability. The proof is the current body of elected officials in the usa, to be blunt. All the elected officials know the fiscal poor voting populace has no way to make them accountable. yeah, but what happens when the voters know all the candidates have no plans to solve anything? which is the common case in the usa today? Well, you believe populaces in the USA can be more influential than they are to the process of electing officials. I oppose that view but I comprehend your position. IDeally, the usa system works as you suggest. Populaces in districts can gather and make, as you say, a list of priorities. The current elected official can, or can not, try to show the populace they are trying to achieve the list. If said officials doesn't try or fails to convince on attempt, said populace can vote out and , your key tactic, candidates will eventually learn to heed the populaces list. But two flaws in this strategy exist. 1) The assumption that any populace can stay engaged or collected through constantly kick ing out officials who fail the list. Eventually any populace will lose interest and people will lose total interest in voting. 2)The assumption that a candidate will eventually arrive as an independent or as a member of a party of governance who will want and work for said populaces list. And the proof is the current body of elected officials in the usa. The parties of governance in the usa clearly are aligned in maintaining a quality of elected official that doesn't give a voter a viable option. And, the effectiveness of an independent candidate is low on arrival and thus hard to be able to prove to a voting populace they can satisfy that list.