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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (1218)	11/15/2004 10:33:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1968

re: Its kind of interesting............with Bush's win, the neocons are strutting like roosters in an effort to show their supremacy. In the process, some interesting stuff is coming to the surface. What's a relief to me is that now Iraq is a red voter war. I used to put the blame squarely on Bush... now there are a whole lot of folks that are responsible for the 38 kids that got killed this past week. The red folks voted for those soldiers deaths; in exchange for what? Yup. That's exactly right. I no longer want to be held responsible for this mess. re: When you start to put it altogether........the Bush win, the decrease in newspaper circulation, the NASCAR ascendancy, the decline of book readership, lowered SAT scores, the region growing the fastest is the least informed..etc, you begin to realize its the dumbing down of America. Hell! Most of the Bush supporters can't spell.......even with the help of spellcheck! Well, I don't know if I buy into the red state/blue state thing. There are a lot of good folks in the South; generous, kind, empathetic. But I do buy into the red voter/blue voter thing. I don't care how its stated.....red state or blue state.....red thing vs blue thing. Basically, its two differents POVs.....one is right, one is wrong; one is blue; one is red. And I think you are right, the US has peaked. As the only "superpower" that's pretty obvious. Where can you go but down? Look at the dollar, it's a perfect proxy for our standing in the world, and it's tanking. Look at our debt and trade balance; it's unsustainable. Look at the declining respect throughout the world. These elements will come together and Bush is going to bankrupt the country, if not in the next four years, sometime within the next 10. It's over; it's not if, it's when. He's the worst political and fiscal manager this country has known. And he's what a majority of the population wants........and that says it all. Those idiots who voted for him think he's alright now because he got a majority of the vote. But in reality.......it shows how screwed up the country has become. America lost badly two weeks ago.........and we haven't begun to pay. Tonite on the news, they showed a Marine going into a house in Fallujah.........there was an unarmed, wounded guy lying on the floor. His buddie yells out that the guy is wounded and probably dying. The Marine takes aim and shoots him dead..........with the video cam running! That's pretty much says it all...........shot him like he was an animal. And that wouldn't have happened on camera two weeks ago. But maybe Bush is just the last in a long line of despotic leaders that proved the axiom that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Every other Empire was destined to fail, why should this surprise us? Yup!