A great example of the difference between Democrats and Republicans

[mikki35]

45. No excuse in this day and age

Oh, I get what you're saying - the wagons circling, the herd mentality, realllllllly hating to admit being wrong - all those unlovely human conditions that are directly and indirectly responsible for so much human fuckery throughout the ages. I do not equate school rivalry with voting for a team that has pledged to do the horrific things this one has.

The propaganda war - nothing new there - FOX has been systematically brainwashing people for decades now. It is as effective now as it has been throughout history. The problem is, this is NOT history. People have literally dozens, if not hundreds, of options, re: how, where, how much, what kind of information they receive. Most of it is available to all at the touch of a mouse or remote. That means that people are very much voluntarily choosing to listen to monumental amounts of ugly. I don't care of you're black, blue, pink, purple, red, whatever - that makes you not just misinformed, it makes you a special kind of fugly-stupid, that is potentially harmful to all.

They are planning to vote for a man, and his sidekick, that have done everything possible to demonize the poor, to strip women of nearly all say-so in reproductive rights. This guy has made millions and millions and millions by doing exactly what EVERYONE recognizes as the worst of the worst behaviors of turn-of-the-century vulture capitalists. They not only destroyed companies to steal their assets, they raided pension funds, so that employees would be utterly dependent on the very same safety net they have pledged to 'privatize' - i.e., make them vulnerable to the same kinds of behavior that just stripped them of their hard-earned retirement. Just WHERE are these people supposed to go WHEN that privatized fund gets raided and stripped????? Oh, I can hear it already - 'they'll set it up so that those privatized monies can never be touched like that!' I say BULL - they said the same EXACT thing about company pension funds.

Now, call me a reactionary judgmental ass - whatever you like - but if somebody voluntarily chooses to 'overlook' stuff like this, I say the vast majority would not only be voting for their own self-destruction, but figuratively spitting on and directly placing in harm's way millions and millions of people who have worked like demons to get to where they are - dependent upon a monthly stipend they have already paid for - either in years worked, blood shed for their country, whatever. That's not just irrational, that's about as ugly as it gets in the human condition.