To: UnBelievable who wrote (38984 ) 11/19/2000 9:46:37 AM From: wsringeorgia Read Replies (1) | Respond to Unbelievable, I appreciate your concern and your point of view makes lots of sense but its not that I am "gloomy" in a personal way, its just that I think that we as a civilization are making all the wrong choices and I don't see it getting any better. I have two young children (even at my rather advanced age) and I do worry about what kind of world they will inherit. I love history and have an enormous library and when the discussion turns to things current and political, well I really don't like either party. I guess I look at it like this; in the last 100 years the Repubs have done lots of really horrendous things and Dems are very little better, so why should I expect future performance to be any better. Others here often discuss suffrage, and suggest that maybe only those who work or those who pay property tax ect. should vote. Well, maybe so! Viewed that way even the Soviet Union was democtatic, after all they had their own parlimentary procedure and the party members countrywide chose delagates to send to Moscow. Just think what a circus our political process has been for the last ten (or more) years; the right lays down the gauntlet on top marginal tax rates, the left does the same on entitlements, ect. Neither agenda will matter one whit to this country or the world in the long run. Then, the two parties manouver for position and a battle begins partly in the media and partly in government over such world shaking issues as Bushs' "no more tax pledge", whitewater or Monicagate. And I am willing to bet the next term will be worse, no matter which candidate finally wins. Well, maybe we will get our long awaited stock market crash! WSR
