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[mindwalker_i]

37. I agree that there are people who have gone too far the other way

Calling Obama a corporatist and continually bashing him is just as faith-based as those blindly supporting him. The correct approach is to take each issue separately and respond to each.

I get the sense that so much is going very wrong in this country, from the way money is spent on military to the way we fund, or don't fund, schools. We could make a really great society. We could put money and effort into people, give everyone good schooling, and do, if not everything, at least something to help them reach their maximum potential. Maybe we could actually tackle the long-term problems facing the world, like global climate change. Maybe we could actually try not to kill ourselves. Republicans are a joke. But when too many democrats treat Republicans like they're not a joke, and try not to offend them, then we're refusing to even acknowledge the big problems, let alone address them.

So in short, faith is bad. Because of people's faith, we end up arguing about stupid shit, like whether Snowden is a hero or asshole, when we should be discussing how to stop the spying that is killing democracy. We should support the ideals, not the people who don't share those ideals.