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Curmudgeoness

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2. Thank you, Dan, for making it so clear
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 01:05 PM
Oct 2012

what is at stake. Unfortunately, any right wingnut that I know would not have the capacity to read all the way through this, or even admit that any of it is true.

You said it best with your final statements.

Rarely has the question “are you better off than you were four years ago?” been so easy to answer, but this is still a close election. Due to a national outbreak of Stockholm syndrome, roughly forty-five percent of Americans – including many of modest means - think it makes sense to give the party of McCarthyism, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and bloodbaths based on imaginary WMDs more power. A more astute and diverse forty-five percent want the United States to continue to heal and evolve.

To the ten percent left, who may decide the election, there’s a simple choice.


If you want a divided and rancorous America that treats women like second-class citizens, bars minorities from the ballot box, handcuffs immigrants who don’t have their papers, shoves gays and lesbians back in the closet, and kicks the elderly and poor to the curb while lavishing windfalls on millionaires and defense contractors, led by a callow, reactionary vice president and a plastic, comically out-of-touch patrician president with no core principles, then Romney-Ryan are your men.

If not, vote for Barack Obama on November 6.

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Good article. northoftheborder Oct 2012 #1
Thank you, Dan, for making it so clear Curmudgeoness Oct 2012 #2
Yes a well stated article. DemocracyIsGolden Jan 2013 #3
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