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I find it humorous that people still think that either political crime family is the answer to our problems. They are one in the same and the only difference is which way they screw us.
The ONLY thing they are concerned about is staying in power. They are going to tell us anything we want to hear, bring up inane "wedge issues" such as gays, guns, god in order to divide the electorate and FOOL us into voting for a continuation of the status quo.
When I hear the useful idiots of the republican or democratic party spout off about how "if only...." I know we are doomed. If people don't realize what these political parties are doing I have no hope for the future.
I am sure people rationalize that voting for the lesser of two evils is "winning" - wake up! What we have now is over 100 years of "winning"...
I don't disagree with you that BOTH political parties are a huge problem for America but I would also say that "mob rule" is even worst... I have yet to hear a reasonable (and intelligent) solution...
Everything you said is true. Most people fall into the trap of the false right left paradigm. Anyone who identifies strongly with one of the two major parties and takes their speeches seriously is a government worshipping goon. The two major parties are there to give us the illusion that we have choice but we don't. Its tag team politics, when one party screws us over for 4 or 8 years then we let the other party have a chance foolishly thinking things will change for the better. Well, things have changed for the better...if you're very high up in the establishment totem pole that is, for everybody else its more and more erosion of their paychecks and liberties.
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That's why I don't vote! Both parties suck, and they don't work for us. It doesn't matter who wins in November, I expect the status quo to continue.
I vote EVERY election. If there are no candidates from a third party I can agree with I vote for myself. (I don't know if other areas allow for this but in Tennessee you can write in a name)
The reason I do it is to let "them" know it isn't apathy.
Believe whatever makes you feel comfortable. George Bush and his band of bumbling Republicans wrecked this country over 8 horrific years. They were wrong. Your red state was wrong. Your red state consistently picks the wrong person for President, consistently votes on the wrong side of the issues, and can't shake the overwhelming evidence that your state's right-favoring ideology supports the most bigoted people in this country. It's natural to discard what you say here.
The reality is that we have a fine President at the helm. He's black. he's brilliant, articulate, supremely educated, and a man of great depth. He's overcome more adversity than all the previous Presidents combined, adversity brought on simply because of the color of his skin. He is the most scrutinzed President in history, principally because of the color of his skin. It took calculating brilliance to get bin Laden, something Republicans couldn't begin to accomplish. Hard to be creative when you're too busy obsessing over blacks and other minorities as Conservatives have shown.
This President was given the the worst mess in history courtesy of the Republican who preceded him. He was cursed with a tea-party downgraded Congress whose sole purpose has been to make him fail, not help the country succeed. He has managed to reverse the free-fall started by Bush, despite the "Congress from Hell." His foreign policy is superior to that of any Republican and he managed to exact change in Libya without putting any boots on the ground or declaring war. Republicans are OK with their representative LYING to go to war or two. So on and so forth.
President Obama represents the superior position and the high ground and he's headed for a second term whether you like it or not.
I have three names for you to consider: Huey Long, Charles Coughlin, Francis Townsend,
In the deepest depths of the Great Depression of the Thirties, all three presented themselves as populist alternatives to Franklin Roosevelt.
Each of the three tailored his message to the concerns of a particular group around whom he hoped to form a coalition -- Long appealed to white Southerners, Couglin to urban ethnics, and Townsend to the impoverished elderly -- but all three saw tampering with the Consttution and aggrandizement of the Powers of the Presidency as the path upward.
The Republicans, due to the more-settled and more-entreprenurial nature of their traditional power base, tended toward more-ideological advocacies such as the Liberty Lobby; but the "remedies"-- a weakening of the checks-and-balances system and the rule of Constitutional law -- were pretty much the same.
Amd that list doesn't include the hooded idiots with simpler, and more brutal answers
In the end, moderation and common sense won out; Roosevelt was re-elected, but more important, the New Deal was fine-tuned to the realities of the times. That is how it has to work this time around as well; the present Administration, to say nothing of the previous two, promised too much at the expense of someone wlse, and the cost of re-adjusting to the rule of a global economy (the Lefties' pet scapegoat) is hard to swallow at times. Nevertheless, it's the only sane answer to the economic tyranny that mde the Twentieth Century the bloodiest to date,
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Believe whatever makes you feel comfortable. George Bush and his band of bumbling Republicans wrecked this country over 8 horrific years. They were wrong. Your red state was wrong. Your red state consistently picks the wrong person for President, consistently votes on the wrong side of the issues, and can't shake the overwhelming evidence that your state's right-favoring ideology supports the most bigoted people in this country. It's natural to discard what you say here.
The reality is that we have a fine President at the helm. He's black. he's brilliant, articulate, supremely educated, and a man of great depth. He's overcome more adversity than all the previous Presidents combined, adversity brought on simply because of the color of his skin. He is the most scrutinzed President in history, principally because of the color of his skin. It took calculating brilliance to get bin Laden, something Republicans couldn't begin to accomplish. Hard to be creative when you're too busy obsessing over blacks and other minorities as Conservatives have shown.
This President was given the the worst mess in history courtesy of the Republican who preceded him. He was cursed with a tea-party downgraded Congress whose sole purpose has been to make him fail, not help the country succeed. He has managed to reverse the free-fall started by Bush, despite the "Congress from Hell." His foreign policy is superior to that of any Republican and he managed to exact change in Libya without putting any boots on the ground or declaring war. Republicans are OK with their representative LYING to go to war or two. So on and so forth.
President Obama represents the superior position and the high ground and he's headed for a second term whether you like it or not.
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Obama will still win
