EyeShotFirst said:
It hurts to see how divided the country is. We all are passionate about this country.
This. Drives me up the wall how divided everyone is over everything. The focus should be on making the country better, not who's man is in office; America isn't going to be destroyed by Obama winning any more than it would have been destroyed if Romney won. I laughed my head off at the people saying they were going to move to Canada or Australia because Obama won, because if you think America is on the verge of Communism because of Obama's policies, I can't wait to see what they think of Canada or Australia's (or just stop being so dramatic because none of them will actually do it).
People need to work together on shit instead of just trying to make the other party look bad; let's all just support the other side's good ideas and decry their bad ones instead of just voting yes or no based on a colour or a D or an R. Things are so full of this ideological bullshit now that nothing will get done no matter who's in the White House, it's so bad that both sides will reply to this saying "but the other side doesn't HAVE any good ideas!".
Something tells me it was likely always this way (I've only seen four Presidents in my lifetime), but from what little I know, it just feels like we're moving further and further away from compromising and coming together in order to form a more perfect union and more and more towards not compromising ever because values and beliefs and whatever personal bullshit you ascribe to.
I'd like it if we could just set all of that aside, accept that one party won the Presidency, support that party unless the President starts calling himself Vermin Supreme and talks about nuking Canada because of moose crossing the border, and just see what happens and how we like it. Then in four years everyone can vote for the other party and they can do their thing. President doesn't even have all that much power anyway, so he's not going to single-handedly destroy America.
EyeShotFirst said:
Sure, there is corruption everywhere, because we aren't well balanced. Seems like we totter more towards capitalism everyday. We should be in the middle of the spectrum. I will not say that Socialism is the way to go, but it's not the Nazi life people paint it to be.
Just because it's a personal pet peeve of mine: While the Nazi party liked to call itself the "NAtionalsoZIalistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" (National Socialist German Worker's Party), in practice, they were actually about as far-right as a party could ever hope to be.