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Posted on 5/16/14 at 5:56 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 5/16/14 at 5:56 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I'm still regularly dumbfounded by otherwise intelligent people getting so emotionally invested in one party or the other. I see a broken system that yields broken policy after broken policy. It's ok though, because the Republicans did stupid stuff too...
I'm 25 and still learning how the world works, but it all looks crazy and broken beyond repair. Someone give me a little hope...
I'm 25 and still learning how the world works, but it all looks crazy and broken beyond repair. Someone give me a little hope...
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Posted on 5/16/14 at 6:03 pm to Duke
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I'm 25 and still learning how the world works, but it all looks crazy and broken beyond repair. Someone give me a little hope.
I was solid Republican in my late teens, more leaning Democrat in my mid 20's, swung back to Republican. I've been much more Libertarian the past 10-15 years or so.
Bush-Obama should have convinced everyone that it really doesn't matter on the national level who you elect. Politicians talk down to the ignorant voter an love to use divisive rhetoric, but deep inside the powers that be have no motive to change the system. So, you get the same assembly no matter what pieces you plug in.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 6:44 pm to Duke
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It's ok though, because the Republicans did stupid stuff too
Which is the entire premise of this OP.
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I'm still regularly dumbfounded by otherwise intelligent people getting so emotionally invested in one party or the other
As am I. Do I lean hard conservative? Absolutely. But that doesn't invest me into the R party with blind loyalty. Plenty has happened under Bush and the current "leadership", that pisses me off and wants a whole hell of a lot of them gone, including the 2 Senators for our state who will likely be 2 of the most powerful when the R's take the Senate this midterm. They've done enough for me to despise their politics and same old game playing that I will vote against them in the primary. I know it's for naught, though.
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Someone give me a little hope
Sadly, I don't believe there is any left to be had, in a legitimate way anymore. And I'm serious with that statement. I truly believe this country has seen it's best days.
Posted on 5/17/14 at 9:22 am to Duke
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I'm still regularly dumbfounded by otherwise intelligent people getting so emotionally invested in one party or the other. I see a broken system that yields broken policy after broken policy. It's ok though, because the Republicans did stupid stuff too... I'm 25 and still learning how the world works, but it all looks crazy and broken beyond repair. Someone give me a little hope...
I think we're going to be ok man. Look you and I can disagree in everything under the sun (we often do) but still come away with a civil conversation. There's hope. There's a lot wrong with us in our 20's and 30's but we're a much more tolerant generation than those before us currently.
Not saying we're better, just more open to listening to others. There's some hope in that.
Spleen's ridiculous goalie attempt aside, the majority on here are willing to listen to some civility.
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