Thread: This Is Not A CraigsList Notice

Tweet

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Ya know what guys? None of this crap really means anything!!!!

I'm to the stage that I could care less about what anyone wants to do about situations throughout the world, I'm looking for the people who have a plan for feeding the people in this country and some sort of plan for economic survival for Joe Average!!!!!

What do you expect from the people you vote for???

I've let these kind of comments, yours and Steve's along with a couple others, slide as usual grousing. But it's time to try to interject some sensibility in this portion of the commentary. Do we have problems with crooked, self serving politicians. Sure, we get the government we deserve. If we believe the government should have the power to rule our lives............this is what we get. They tell us what kind of light bulbs we can use. Tell us we must use food, or land that could grow food alternately, for purposes other than food. Piss away borrowed money to fund pixie dust energy boondogles, and on and on..................we've listed a bunch throughout this thread.

But what really bugs me is this, "they're all the same, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU VOTE FOR" B.S. It does matter. It seems this "it doesn't matter...." crap always comes up when certain politicians are in trouble in the polls or focus groups. Then it gets filtered into the media messages in a subtle way.............."Congress is disfunctional....", "Such and so are obstructing....." and so forth. When one segment of the political spectrum doesn't get a blank check the other guy is unreasonable for not caving in. Funny, we never got any of that "disfunctional" jazz a couple years ago. The media's guys had full control...............................and look at the results. You want government to "do something"? When they have full control of the medical system they'll literally have the power to say whether you live or die at their whim.

The 2010 election was the people sending a clear message that a significant number of the population didn't like what happened in Congress and from the White House. Some of you don't like or agree with that message, but it was a democratically expressed message.........not controlled by the top of the political system and it's lap dog propaganda machine. A good number of those folks elected then are trying to put some dampers on an excessive government, but don't have the numbers yet to make it happen. They are, of course, a target of the power hungry and could just as easily lose their seats. THAT'S why this "they're all the same......" junk gets spread. It's a TACTIC to subtly suppress voter turn out. Think about it...................who would benefit most from a dejected electorate in this election cycle. If you (the general you, not Dave specifically) can't figure that out, maybe you shouldn't vote. The founding fathers wisely structured our government with the intent that no politician could annoint himself king (or similar). They purposely wanted divided power so that all factions could have a chance and none be suppressed by some authoritarian structure. It saddens me to see too many in our society lose sight of that and as a result, intentional or not doesn't matter, throw away freedom for the common man.