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I'm optimistic all the time. My personal fortunes don't rise or fall according to who sits in the White House.
You folks must have some sucky lives. Glad I'm not any of you.
As much as I think Bush and Obama both sucked I managed to stay employed throughout both their terms. Need to make three more years (until I am 59.5). I will probably make it.
I am supporting Rand in 2016 for the sake of my grandchildren.
For the last freakin time, have you never watched SchoolHouse Rock? You all are just sad if you've never seen that program. Obama is mostly only there to look pretty. He is partly at fault but not all to blame.
There is also strength in numbers. If you angry Republicans don't like the way things are going band together. Don't just sit there. If it's a policy that I don't agree with then I'll join you but only if I know everyone else will because I can't do it by myself. They're not going to listen to me because I'm only one person.
We are guaranteed to have a better president in two years and probably one who tells less lies and who does not hate the working class.
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Originally Posted by TheDusty
The next election will still be full of candidates who can accept funding from large corporations.
I'm not that optimistic.
I am very pessimistic because I believe that government tends towards entropy in the same way that the universe does.
Who really believes this country's best days are ahead of it? Who really believes that this country will become more united(thereby less divided) in the future? Who even believes there will be a United States even a hundred years from now?
I believe the founders were correct about this country, its tendency towards despotism, and how democracy undermines the legitimacy of law itself. For all intents and purposes, there is no constitution. And for that matter, the legitimacy of the state is increasingly questionable. The only future I see, is disorder.
Furthermore, to believe that electing a new president is going to fix our problems is to be completely delusional. It assumes that the people are even capable or willing to elect a man of character.
I am very pessimistic because I believe that government tends towards entropy in the same way that the universe does.
Who really believes this country's best days are ahead of it? Who really believes that this country will become more united(thereby less divided) in the future? Who even believes there will be a United States even a hundred years from now?
I believe the founders were correct about this country, its tendency towards despotism, and how democracy undermines the legitimacy of law itself. For all intents and purposes, there is no constitution. And for that matter, the legitimacy of the state is increasingly questionable. The only future I see, is disorder.
Furthermore, to believe that electing a new president is going to fix our problems is to be completely delusional. It assumes that the people are even capable or willing to elect a man of character.
As much as I think Bush and Obama both sucked I managed to stay employed throughout both their terms. Need to make three more years (until I am 59.5). I will probably make it.
I am supporting Rand in 2016 for the sake of my grandchildren.
Vote and if necessary Fight like your liberty, life, freedom and prosperity and of your children and their children are at risk, because they are..
Who is on the receiving end of that $3.7 trillion? Medicare, Tricare, VA, Medicaid for seniors, Defense, Defense-civilian employees. Here is a dirty little secret 45% of federal employees are veterans. The 3.7 trillion budget goes to people who vote reliably Republican. Heck if there is someone giving a federal handout the person on the other end is most likely a Republican. Down in Bakersfield, California the Tea Party-conservative types have no trouble signing up for the ACA and then voting for a guy who wants to kill it. Can you explain that if you are a Tea Partier?
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