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In reply to the discussion: Quick! Take something that has happened continuously for 7 years and blame it on Obama on 6/6/13! [View all]MineralMan
(146,189 posts)records are in the hands of the NSA, then OK. I care about a lot of issues. That one's way down on my list, really. So far, I've not seen a single presidential candidate in my lifetime who I agreed with on all issues. Not one, and I remember them all from Eisenhower through today. And yet, I've voted for a candidate in every election since I turned 21. Every election. Even local elections and special elections. Even when I was out of the country. Since 1964, I've campaigned for candidates in one way or another.
We're not fucked, unless we don't bother to vote for the best candidate who can win in any election. We may not get everything we want, and sometimes we don't get anything much, especially when a Republican wins. But, that's how we do it in this country. We go and we vote.
The only way to be fucked is not to bother or to throw a vote away on a candidate who cannot possibly gain a majority. Then we fuck ourselves, and that's always painful.