Originally posted by neo96
What the next 4 years are going to look like in a nutshell is exactly what the last 4 years have looked like

4 more years of being told I hate poor people
4 more years of being told I hate women
4 more years of being told I hate African Americans
4 more years of being told I hate Hispanics
4 more years of being told I hate Gays
4 more years of being told I hate the middle class
4 more years of being told how evil corporations are
4 more years of being told how evil banks are
4 more years of the mass media ignoring everything inherently wrong with the current administration
4 more years of how the GOP is obstructionist.
4 more years of tax the rich
4 more years of the liberal superiority complex from a party that claims everyone is "equal"
4 more years of "like how totally awesome Obama and the Democrats are".
4 more years of Blame Bush which makes Bush the longest serving Potus in US history.

The United states of ignorance is what the country is
The united states of dysfunction is also what this country is.

Blah blah Blah

In the immortal words of Benjamin Franklin:

We are all born ignorant, but one really must work hard to remain stupid.

edit on 18-11-2012 by neo96 because: (no reason given)

You're not alone. I always vote against neoconservatives (which means I sometimes vote Dem, other times Rep or 3rd party), but I get it the opposite way. If I vote Dem, then I am a Socialist proponent of terrorist attacks against my own nation who is a bloodthirsty baby killer, hell-bent on eliminating all private enterprise.

The thing is, "left or right", the ingorant tend to think anyone who supports "the other side" is automatically a supporter of all of the most extreme positions/actions of their chosen side. Those people, obviously, unless you're Karl Rove or George Soros, are simply wrong.

I believe in small government, who doesn't interfere with private choice (examples gay marriage, abortion, gun ownership, etc.) right off the bat, with those few things, beither major party platform can be assigned to me either way. People who feel as though the extreme positions automatically apply to citizens on either side are, for lack of a better term, stark raving mad idiots.

Originally posted by neo96
What the next 4 years are going to look like in a nutshell is exactly what the last 4 years have looked like

4 more years of being told I hate poor people
4 more years of being told I hate women
4 more years of being told I hate African Americans
4 more years of being told I hate Hispanics
4 more years of being told I hate Gays
4 more years of being told I hate the middle class
4 more years of being told how evil corporations are
4 more years of being told how evil banks are
4 more years of the mass media ignoring everything inherently wrong with the current administration
4 more years of how the GOP is obstructionist.
4 more years of tax the rich
4 more years of the liberal superiority complex from a party that claims everyone is "equal"
4 more years of "like how totally awesome Obama and the Democrats are".
4 more years of Blame Bush which makes Bush the longest serving Potus in US history.

4 more years of your bitterness it seems

From Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations', considered the bible of capitalism and free market theory:

"The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation."

"The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."

What I find intriging is that the position of the father of capitalism sounds strangely similar to that of Karl Marx,
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs".

If anyone wonders what 4 more years under Obama will look like just check out California - the most highly taxed, highly regulated state in the nation where public sector unions have the most power. They have the highest paid teachers and worst schools, best retirement packages for public workers and the highest debt.
Businesses are fleeing California at the rate of 5 per day to escape the taxation and over-(green) regulation. Our entire country is going to resemble the mess that California is.
" Mom's gonna fix it all soon...watch you flush it all away" - Tool

Originally posted by Indigo5

Reality disconnect remains the biggest challenge of the republican party. Once honesty and reality return to to republicans everything else will solve itself.

There's no difference between the democrats, and the republicans. They both lie their asses off to get votes. After elections are over it's business as usual no matter who wins. The national debt keeps going up.

4 more years of being told I have to pay a little more so others with less can get a little more.
4 more years of being asked to help those with less because the government just can't handle the costs.
4 more years of being told the election wasn't fixed and that the majority are thinking the wrong things.
4 more years of accepting that I'll be getting less because others got too much for a long time.
4 more years of wtahcing the very rich get richer while everybody else gets poorer. Except the very poor who keep being maintained.
4 more years of living within my means while watching those with less live beyond theirs and have no accountability for it.
4 more years of not getiing bailed out while the big money interests do..
4 more years of voting only to have another election decided before you even cast your vote.
4 more years of both parties working for the same puppet masters deciding to work together to screw every american citizen.
4 more years of letting illegals come in and lower everybodys standards of living.
4 more years of being called a racist because I think Obama is a fraud and an empty suit. Well so was Bush.How come that isn't being racist?
4 more years of watching the culture and society decay.
4 more years of Obama being defended by those saying" Well, Bush did the same thing." You think Bush sucked, why not Obama? THEY'RE PRACTICALLY TWINS!
4 more years of boobus america just stumbling around blind and ignorant to it all.

Compromise is a reasonably regulated market for health, safety and environment with a social OPTION for necessities.

My internet experience shows we are heavily divided as a nation. I see a little bit of this in public, but people are more careful. I hope we can work it out.

We're animals dealing with our primal urges and our training. We need to understand how and why we manipulate and are manipulated. We should try to see homo sapiens for what we really are and how we naturally develop. This should clear up a few things and allow us to evolve as a society.