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Peter:

--- Quote from: EricL ---....The world does not need another person in power who believes Armageddon is inevitable or desirable or that invading other countries is God's will (as Palin does).
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If you state it like that, it sounds like it won't take long before WW3 breaks out, it is time to ally up with Russia.


--- Quote ---I think most people on the planet fail to realize how truly dangerous the combination of the US political system, the power of special interests (many of whom are or pretend to be religious groups) and the stupidity/apathy of the US public really are and that that system is self perpetuating.   Special interests are able to steamroll an apathetic populace and place irrational, often unintelligent puppets in charge of the largest arsenal on the planet by appealing to an uneducated public whose candidate litmus test is solely whether a candidate believes in the same imaginary friends in the same way that they do.  Be very afraid.
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If someone would like to completely bash america that would be a pretty good start.
Slowly I see a picture appearing of a big fat man drinking bear on the couch before the television watching football. An american bashing americans, I don't know how deep this country has come..

EricL:
There are many things to admire about the US (fewer today than in years past) but often, the US public and the government they have allowed embarrass me greatly.  Perhaps I am more travelled than most or consider my membership in homo sapian sapians more important than the fact that I happen to have been born in the middle part of North America.   Perhaps I simply aspire to an unrealistic Star Trek world and should wise up.

I think it's mostly the squandering of so much potential.  To those to whom much is given, much is expected.  It grieves me to see a country and people with so much potential squander it so foolishly.      

I voted for Reagan and Bush I.   I'm fiscally conservative and worry about big government, higher taxes and huge entitlement programs.  But I'm socially liberal and hold strong views on such things as privacy rights and personal freedoms, not that either candidate particularly meets my specific criteria in any area.   As I said, it's a choice between the lessor of two evils.

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