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Then don't vote. Afterwards don't complain.

There are many that will be more than happy to decide your life... For you.

Thanks for your input. Please note, I'm not mocking you. I just don't understand that line of thought that displays a smack of helplessness. The bigger the problem, the bigger the challenge, the more an individual MUST rise to secure, any society of any value.

I've had the exact opposite opinion since very early, it's absolutely the most interesting presidential race I've ever seen. Aside from the antics of the billionaire outsider, we've seen a large republican field gradually winnowed down to 3, two senile socialists on the democrat side who seem to be trying to see who can think up more free stuff...

It's been crazy, yes, nasty and even childish at times, but a couple of issues make it the most important election of our time too.

Illegal immigration is costing the country billions, holding wages down, increasing crime, bringing in diseases not seen here in 50 years.
One Supreme Court Judge already gone, two others so old they fart dust. The wrong president means the end of both 1st and 2nd amendments. To begin with...
ISIS is spreading like mushroom spores in the wind, threatening not only our entire way of life, but the very existence of the country. Remember Bin Laden and Iran have both sworn to destroy America. Bin Laden is dead but that oath is not.
Out of control government spending, among other things, has the country so far in debt your great grandkids won't be able to pay it back.

I could list a half dozen other less pressing issues, this country is going to hell in a handbasket with a total idiot behind the wheel.

I'm disgusted with most of them too. what is the total...20 initially in the race, down to 5 now, and at least one on each side bringing up the less than standard to unfair methods of handling delegates from state to state, quite a few issues have been brought to public attention that would have never been mentioned if it had played out differently, and all of them important, many people, possibly millions, waking up to the greed, corruption and deception infesting DC...

A most interesting race. The first thing I do when I get online every day is look up what happened since I looked last time. I've never followed an election like this. Millions of voters have gone to the polls who normally would not have. Thousands and possibly millions are switching parties, protests going on and will continue, death threats, voter fraud...

Most interesting. But the outcome determines whether this country ends up looking like America again or Greece...

You do what you want, I'm watching and I'm voting. Even if I have to hold my nose.

It is not a reality TV show. It is a serious thing called LIFE!
"OH WELL" and "IT IS WHAT IT IS" are not solutions.

Holy krap!

Then don't vote. Afterwards don't complain.

There are many that will be more than happy to decide your life... For you.

Thanks for your input. Please note, I'm not mocking you. I just don't understand that line of thought that displays a smack of helplessness. The bigger the problem, the bigger the challenge, the more an individual MUST rise to secure, any society of any value.

Very good post, bro!



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That old rubric no longer holds up Glen, "If you don't vote don't complain."
That is only meaningful if there exists an opposition party and one does not exist at this time.

Talbot

I think I just heard Trump say, "it doesn't matter if he's a republican or a democrat

That old rubric no longer holds up Glen, "If you don't vote don't complain."
That is only meaningful if there exists an opposition party and one does not exist at this time.

Talbot

I disagree....

We have a Tea Party candidate running, but everyone who complains about the establishment is voting for a dictator instead, or repeating his wild accusations without so much as a nanosecond of critical analysis to verify.

We are losing an opportunity for legal change within the system.



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