Is there any way to short the Romney Campaign?
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It's about political ideas. There are certainly correlated ethnic and religious attributes that tend to be found on partisans of both sides, but those are not the driving factors.
Besides, given that it is a tenet of Leftist ideology that Christian whites suppress those of other religions & ethnicities here in the US, it would seem to me that the opportunity to live in a completely separate sovereign nation away from all the white racists would be a welcome change. What am I missing here?
Given the rhetoric I hear non-stop from the Left about how irredeemably stupid and ignorant their political opponents are, I would think that the Left would jump at the chance to have its own country where it could do whatever it wanted without political opposition. Why end up settling for half-measures due to the presence of opposition when you can get the whole loaf? If you had your own country, you could have Paul Krugman as Secretary of the Treasury for all eternity, if you wanted. Or, heck, someone even further to the Left than Krugman.
Problem is, obviously, that those on the Left who would occupy positions of power in such a country don't want the accountability that would come with it.
Doesn't say much for your "leaders", does it?
I think that you and I are, unfortunately, ahead of our time. We just need to wait for the rest of these idiots to wake up. Probably take a long time, though. But, the trend globally is more local determination and control, so it's only a matter of time until the centrifugal forces of those trends hits the US.
And politics is divorced from ethnocentric or religious ideas.
Really???
centerfugal forces... good point.. its a whirlpool of debt and over leveraged countries.. here in the USA we don't even aknowledge a problem... its pure counterintuitive sickness.. gas on the fire.. or giving more drugs to drug addicts... or the manic depressive just waiting out his next dump of dopamine..
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And politics is divorced from ethnocentric or religious ideas.
Really???
Not in all cases, no, but one of the features of the modern age is that political ideology is less and less simply a function of ethnicity or religion and more a function of a philosophical commitment to a set of principles. That's why you have nearly even elections in the US, despite the overwhelming majorities of white Christians, who are still something like 70% of the country's population. Clearly those white Christians disagree on political questions or they would vote in something much closer to lock-step.
The drivers are irrelevant, anyway. The basis for divorce could be that people in red counties like the color red and people in blue counties like the color blue. The point is that there is no space for political agreement, so what is the point of having a single country when there isn't agreement on even the most basic of political questions?
There is none.
Good call....lose lips can definitely sink ships.
c'mon yall- we're in this together. Lets face it, Forbes' top 5 CEO's probably couldn't get a handle on this wobbly train that the Roosevelt administration handed us- back when Republicrats wasn't even a concept.
The only reason I think it's Obama by far, is because it seems to me that Romney wasn't even really good enough for sloppy thirds behind 1.John McCain, who obviously goodn't beat Obama. 2.Sarah Palin, who sank her own ship with reality television. and 3. Herman Cain, who I presume did a decent job managing a 3rd rate pizza chain, before a sex scandle exposed by Rush Limbaugh brought him down.
Now this guy, Romney (who couldn't make it into the big dance the last time around) is supposed be all-of-the-sudden back and supercharged enough to beat America's favorite golfer?
It just seems to be a very expensive formality at this point.
BUt just my humble point of view...
BTW - Greedy Wallstreet players are as responsible as any other parties for the mess we are in...just sayin