reply to post by Sublime620
Thank you for your kind words.
Oh, yes,
by today's standards, Nixon is a flaming liberal
And, honestly, Clinton was part of the "Republican wing" of the Democratic
Party.
On a political spectrum, anyone to your left can be said to be "liberal"; hence, from a neoconservative viewpoint, the world is a terrifying place
of horrifying "liberal" values, enough to bring down a nation, even a nation as great as America.
I remember the Cook county "dead voters". Any attempt to rig an election is a crime against American values and ideals, whether it be by employing
fraud, dead voters, rigged election machines, etc.
You are young. Good! I am sorry you are inheriting a world made more frightening by war and bad economic decisions. Resist the temptation to lump
everyone, every idea, every institution together as no good, because of failed attempts on both sides.
We must evaluate things separately. If we don't, that is like saying, my sister has cancer and someone else saying yeah but mine has a cold so
they're both ill. No, there are differences. Glynda asked, Are you a good witch or a bad witch?
Earmarks, for example, are now "bad". "Special interests" are labeled bad. But if your road was paved because of an earmark, you wouldn't think
it bad, nor if your job was saved by a special interest group, i.e. a union, you wouldn't think it bad.
People are waking up to the fact that all aspects of the world nowadays, not just technology, but trade, for example, are much more complicated.
Simple statements, bumper sticker ideas, we find are really not that simple. Reagan was elected by many who simply wanted a new vision for America,
but they were not told that his vision meant they would lose their jobs.
That is the world you will be guiding. You must elect a leader who understands these complexities and works with them. Personally, here is what I
think about the current crop of candidates: McCain, as much as he tried to be bipartison, is a tape deck; Clinton, as much as I would love to say
Madam President and who could be a force for good change, is a cd; Obama, OTOH, is an MP4 player, a leader for your time, not mine.
The biggest problem with America now is uniting the citizens for a Better America, not an America that longs for some "golden age" of times past but
one that looks forward to a Better Age now. If the economy is a problem, then wrest it from the hands of economic anarchists. If war is a problem,
then stop giving money to mercenaries and war corporations and give it to peace corp workers. If energy is a problem, then explore new ways of energy
systems. Do not, do not, do business as usual!
This pettiness of getting citizens to vote fraudulently disgusts me. We are Americans, we stand before the world as caretakers of the light of liberty
and freedom. America's light has grown dimmer in recent years, and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
Continue to fight, nonviolently, young people, for it truly is the fight for your lives, your livelihood. Life is a continuing struggle. Never give
up, but don't expect the struggle to end. In America we have a bloodless revolution every four years, it is called voting.
BTW, part of my family were bombed by union activists in the early part of last century, but those who did the bombing could just as easily have been
family members, too. That is the great weirdness of America, the fact that a nation can contain it all and still survive.
My dad never worked for a union business, but he always said that the benefits he did get from that business were there only because unions elsewhere
had fought for them. And, I can remember those "profit sharing" checks he would happily bring home to share with his family at the end of the year.
My God, nowadays, that's...that's...positively unAmerican...it's Socialism!!
What have we been reduced to nowadays?...not the profit sharing from a successful big business but a government "handout" to stimulate the economy!
Truly weird.
