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The ignorance comment wasn't directed at you Red Leg. Point made though. What I'm trying to say is if your starving and don't like Turnips and that's all you have, well then Turnips aren't so bad. It would be self defeatist, ignorant, to starve.Erik, I respect your strong feelings on this. However, running a government is not easy. "Throw all the bums out" sounds enticing, but almost all the early supporters of term limits have decided that wasn't such a good idea after all. Our system of government is based upon compromising sources of power. I would agree that my party has not used its base power as effectively as it could have over the last seven years, but what would you have had them do? Truly shut down government? Put the black guy in his place? That is exactly how it would have been spun and how 60% of your fellow citizens would have perceived it. And don't kid yourself, the first undelivered social security check would have been our party's fault, not Obama's.
My concern with Trump is that I have no earthly idea what he really intends to do or how he intends to do it. He is just going to make it all "wonderful" again. That frankly scares the hell out of me. And the fact that he seemingly has created a cult of personality around himself scares me even more. We, fortunately, have little experience with that in our republic, but history is replete with the type. And don't lecture me about being "ignorant". I actually know a bit about how this whole thing really works. Maybe as much as you? His list of judges has helped - probably a lot. And the notion of voting for a modern day Evita Peron is more than I can stomach whatever Trump's ignorance of Trade, Monetary, and Foreign policy might be. But don't ask me to like it, or to jump blindly, or happily, on the bandwagon.
Yes I am passionate because we have a choice to let the country further slip away. in this case the sky won't fall tomorrow but the current climate is like a plague. Slowly it infects people one at a time until BAM we're all in it. This is exactly how the socialists in this country have set it up and We the People are playing right into it.
I am whole heartedly for term limits, people made the same arguments pre-FDR. After that it didn't seem like such a bad idea. Everyone has a finite amount of usefulness politically speaking. These dinosaurs need to go.
I'm not nieve, I understand governments are difficult to run. I work for the government as I know you did so yes, I get it.
I'm not saying you have to like it. In reality it's absolutely none of my business who you vote for not what you believe. My simple point is we have two choices. That's it, like it or not. I'll take, for arguments sake, the lesser of two evils.
Much of my rant has come from many peoples rumblings of ,"well my guy didn't get it so I'm taking my toys and going home". That in my opinion is ignorant, petty, and childish. It will also ensure one more step closer to LOOSING this country. Maybe not today or tomorrow but our kids will wake up and wonder what in the hell we left them with in their lifetime.
I also get pretty fired up about the whole how did we get to this point mentality.
1) we're here, get over it and do what you can to get people's mindset back on track.
2) We got here because of the blaring weakness in the republican leadership. It's our fault, we've allowed these spineless weasels to stay in office.
As far as a gov't shut down is concerned, it won't be the first or the last time that has/will happen. I really don't give a damn how the media or liberals spin it. That goes back to being weak and spineless. Had our republican house and senate been passing bills daily to combat this nonsense and put proposals forward to get budgets etc... Passed and let OBAMA veto them then it's pretty clear where the fault lies. Yet they haven't done that. They've stood back and played nice and let the left, who are the minority run the country.
And for the big one- the whole,"putting the black guy in his place" is your words not mine. Does he need to be put in check, absolutely that's their job. It doesn't make one bit of damn difference what color he is to me. I could care less if he's green with purple polka dots.
Government is all about checks and balances. The last 8 years has seen none of this. Voters did a pretty good job of pointing that out when the republicans win back the senate in 12 by an overwhelming response. Yet still here we are, nothing's changed and the spineless weasels who are leading the party have done very little to stop it. I think that's pretty clear evidence of how we ended up with the choices we have.