“The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.”
― Thomas Jefferson
I think that we can point fingers when it is true. People voted for Bush because of fear, and he pandered to that (though I still fail to believe he legally won both elections). I hate to take the lowest common denominator here but Family Guy painted the Bush years best when Lois won the election for mayor by regurgitating "9/11". And I keep hearing people like you say they like Romney but how...why? The man is a stooge. I don't think Obama will change anything but I fully feel Romney will make them worse. While Bush was in office life went to shit, and quite of bit of what stole from us is exactly is the norm for people like Romney. This Ayn Rand meets Judeo-Christian rhetoric that just doesn't work. It is very much an "I'm in it for me unless I'm talking to the Christians and then it is 'What would Jesus do?'" Well the Jesus that I believe in (yes I still believe he existed) would do nothing like EITHER party. Nowhere does Romney ever say anything about the people and how he cares about the people and what he wants to do for the people. Instead he blames the people for where we are when the fact that those that came before allowed things like one corporation (Bank of America) to control over 16% of our entire economy, companies like Halliburton to inflate their coffers as war profiteers on the backs of our poor and under-educated, and companies to continue to get away with poisoning our food medicine, etc all so they can increase their bottom line. And as for "a plan"...what plan? I've read what he says and it says nothing. Even his "tax cuts" would either only be for the rich and come out of our pocket, or would put us $4.8 trillion further in debt. This isn't just numbers...this is what Forbes, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, even Fox News all agree on. And I completely agree...Obama is a lot of talk. But Romney isn't? There is this ideal that Republicans represent that just is never going to happen. This Ozzie and Harriet reality that only existed on tv. The 50's were not this shining beacon of America. This was an age of witch hunts, heavy racism, sexism, on top of all the ills we see today (they just kept their sins behind closed doors better). I can continue on but the point is simply this: how is it that we think by voting corporate America into office we can do better when it was corporate America that put us here?
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