Tiptup said:
Who, in this day and age, honestly thinks Democrats are out to protect them from the rich? What a bunch of bullshit. The Democrat leadership just passed a 700 billion dollar plan of crap to bail out all of their stupid, rich friends who got rich via government spending and regulations (as apposed to honest work). Not only that, they were bailing out themselves: most of our legislators are rich and have a lot of money invested in the firms which stand to lose money (after Democrats encouraged bad investments). What a fucking joke and the American people are the butt.
Couldn't have said it any better. But yet, even when presented with this reality, people like Janskeet will simply shrug it off without giving it a second thought and continue to think the way they do, but only because that is not what they WANT to believe. They want to believe there is somebody looking out for the poor, they want to believe that someone is going to give them a hand out, they want to stick their head in the sand when things in the world they do not like take place (example, 1993 World Trade Center bombing), they don't want to believe other countries or people might have something against them, they'd rather believe other countries have a problem with Bush and crazy religious Americans, but not with avergage Joe Schmoe. They want to think that if it was not for Bush and the damn Jews and Christians, that we would not have to worry about people like Saddam, instead we could just become evil dictators best friends and talk some sense into them over a game of pool.
It is such a fantasy world these people live in where the words "hope" and "change" as standalone concepts without anything in front of them or behind them somehow have very deep and profound meanings too them.
And no, don't take these comments the wrong way, I am not saying that the Republicans are the exact opposite of the Democrats, I have very little good things I can say about the Republicans at this point. I just think that it is amazing that some of you people can be lied to so much that you will believe anything, contrary to real evidence or facts.