its not laughable. its true. if we look to the guiding principles of our country and how far away we have gotten from them, we should be ashamed and do what we can to fix it. If we dont like the way our country is run, then we must strive to fix it or accept the situation. Just like socrates noted in the crito, when you chose to live within a society, and benefit from joining into that society, when you have an issue with it, you only have two options. Either convince it to change, or accept whatever comes down to you. its a social contract theory. I like locke better though, because he espoused that when a govt fails to do its job, then we must work to fix it or to dissolve it. seeing as we would vastly be disadvantaged by dissolving the union, we must work to improve it