Toon: A test to see if your partisanship is clouding your patriotism

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4. What if they take a longer view?

Suppose it is February of 2004 and the economy is improving.

I could very easily be upset or bummed by that.

Believing, as I did, and do, that Bush and Republican policies are bad for this country, and for the world, I wanted to see Bush and Republicans get defeated in the 2004 elections. Not because I want the country to fail.

Think of it this way. Smoking, as we all know, is bad for you. However, many people seem not to believe that. They continue to smoke. Suppose smoking was decided by an election in November. You sorta want somebody to get bronchitis in August, so they will vote against smoking. If, instead, they get bronchitis in January and start to recover by October then the optimistic and gullible fools might decide to vote to keep on smoking. Like with the Bush administration, the lung cancer did not show up until 2007, when Bush/Republican policies finally came home to roost. With a worse economy in 2004, we might have avoided that disaster.

Now, of course, those on the right are predicting the same future disaster of creeping socialism if Obama gets re-elected. Like any prediction of the future, it is hard to refudiate.