Originally posted by Ratmagiclady Errrr. Yah. I'm sure that'll lead to *expert* governance. Frankly, I sure hope people don't find out the hard way just how much it takes to run this country as they're accustomed, complaining about the existence of government all along the way. Why they want to give up their only possible protection against the greedy and powerful is beyond me. There's a reason we don't look like a lot of the rest of the world, and it's not out of the goodness of some corporate machine's heart.
Electing more of the same as got us into this mess, with intensified divisiveness to cover for the fact that they still have no good ideas, ... all to 'prove government doesn't work' for another go-round, really promises nothing but more social strife and economic disaster.
Maybe it's time some of the so-called conservatives take an actual look past the 'Happy Days' myopia and remember some of the actual history of this country, and what happens when the ultra-rich have their way and people have no rights as workers.
Wasn't the last one bad enough? You can claim Obama went back in time and caused all those empty houses and lost jobs, insurance ripoffs and broken communities all you want, ...but it's not going to make things any better.
More of the same? More deadlock? Seems a high price to think you'll get the CIA out of your head.
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Ratmagiclady, I read a lot of your comments on this forum and I agree with you the majority of the time. This time I respectfully disagree.
The FED protects us from the Greedy and Powerful? The exact opposite.
We don't look like the rest of the world? We have 13 trillion dollar debt, which the republic of China is so very nicely paying off for us
Electing more of the same? Which president has ever declared his plans to end the Fed and dismantle the CIA and FBI? Cuz Bush and Obama sure as hell didn't
Good ol days? Isn't that what the Grass roots organization all about? And its not the same as the tea-baggers. Tea baggers are just racist sore-losers.
The last one? Yeah, he f-ing sucked. Even Ron Paul is disgusted that Bush calls himself a republican. NO other Republican has publicly come out against Bush DURING and AFTER his reign in the Oval office like Paul. REAL republicans dont look to start trillion dollar wars over-seas. And Ron Paul is REAL.
We will just keep on fighting forever so just accept my opinion and I'll accept yours. I guess you can say I'm a leftist, but if republicans actually stood true to their dogmas then I wouldn't mind voting Republican. I like the idea of conservatism, which democrats are known for NOT doing, but then at the same time why would a republican start 2 wars overseas costing us over a trillion dollars?
*Ron Paul speaks the truth, and it's evident he speaks the truth because he says all the WRONG things someone would say if they wanted to be elected president. I'd rather a politicians to say the un-popular truth to my face, then to have someone trying to make us all feel good by feeding us lies during election year, only to butt-fock us for 4 years after that