fisherman bob wrote:Is it my imagination or is this the worst bunch of Presidential candidates ever? I really get the impresion that the American people don't give a crap this time around. The political "rallies" seem utterly lifeless. The shenanigans in Washington have given the general population a political malaise. Nobody at this point is firing up anybody's imagination. Unless something dramatic hapens I'll bet we have the lowest voter turnout ever the next Presidential election.
'Worst bunch' is an understatement... The bigger Picture:
I'll probably get crucified for saying this... My folks lived in the era best known as the 'Greatest Generation". From there, its all downhill. The 60's turned everything upside down... Which was fun until hippies started getting hurt. A key feature of the 60's was the social abandonment of up tightness and anal retentiveness... If you held on to those, you were "square". In theory, it was an awesome concept. But they threw out a baby with that bathwater... called "responsibility and accountability" . Enter the 70's, folks who preached free love, couldn't get laid enough...and engaged at a great cost to the moral fiber of the community... As the pill dominated and increased production, , funny thing Abortions still sky-rocketed, women's movements went overkill against male counter parts...followed by activists of every fringe group in the Universe. Where there had been 'unity in the 60's, there became a division in the 70's
(The trouble with individualism was that everybody was practicing it.) This set the tone for 80's 90's, whereby the infant of social calamity fed and grew, teaching itself and learning how to use political devices ...until it reached adulthood in 2000s.
What you see now, Bob, is the proliferation of a new generation of politicians who scarcely keep a moral foundation, or at the very least , scarcely keep the knowledge of how to build and sustain a moral foundation.
Our enemies have noticed this lately, ...and like the vultures they are, have swooped down to exploitit and feed off this twisted carcass , once called the U.S. of America.
We should probably rename our nation as: D.S. ( The Divided States of America)
