5 Signs the United States Is Undergoing a Coup - James Fallows

[Drunken Irishman]

111. I know they don't.

And those who go out and vote for some third party candidate or don't vote at all because they don't like Obama are just as responsible for a Republican win as the Republicans. I understand perfectly a lot of liberals don't like Obama. I also understand that they'd rather hold the entire ideology hostage just to prove a point than to actually work for change from the ground up. In reality, many liberals are too lazy and can't invest that much time and energy into actually doing something.

If liberals truly cared about doing something, they would get off their high horse and realize Obama, Gore, Kerry and Clinton were/are infinitely better than the Republican options. But they're too narrow minded to see it that way. Instead, they'll be lazy, apathetic, stick it to the man! group of fools who rail against the right-wing lurch of this nation and do nothing to get us back to the left. We're a right-leaning nation because, for years and years, the left checked out nationally and allowed the Republicans to dominate everything.

Like I said, they reap what they sow. I don't want liberals bitching if Romney wins in November when he decides to send us to war with Iran, or decides he'll cut social security and education and other social programs.