No Carbon Tax: Obama

[Savannahmann]

19. I guess my complaint is the road to Hell

We seem to be on it, and we can't change course. If we elect a Repug, we stomp on the gas to get to the world they dream of. A fascist based Plutocracy. Where the Government isn't for everyone, just the 1% who matters. (Yes, that's from the Cinemax show Hunted but it is the way the Repugs think isn't it?) When we are able to get Democrats into office, we tap the brakes, we slow down a bit, but we're still headed toward the same destination on the same road. One of my often expressed pet peeves is the PATRIOT ACT. Even if you admit that those who voted for it originally did so out of the best of intentions, you have to admit that the monster created by that act is an abomination. So why do we not kill the abomination? Why we might look like we're not tough on Terrorism. I've never seen anyone swear an oath to take an office to do anything other than defend the Constitution. Yet we happily vote to toss the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments out the window for the PATRIOT ACT.

I guess I'm calling on Democrats to do something other than tap the brakes a bit. I want them to slam those brakes on, and shift that thing into reverse. But I can see already, we're not going to do it. We're going to avoid doing it, because it's just too hard. Do you ever wonder what History will say about us in a hundred years? Read History books today, about the morons in charge as the First World War started up. Have we learned nothing from their mistakes? Are we doomed to keep making the same mistakes over and over again every generation? Sometimes, I think we are.