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AMERICAN POLITICS FOR THE EURO ZONE
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Scares the SHIT out of me. Her especially. The idea that these two might actually be elected is enough to make me REALLY REALLY QUESTION our decision to move to SF. PLEASE, SOMEONE TELL ME THAT THIS ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN. PLEASE. I get this powerless feeling of dread every four years, much as I expect other Europeans do. All you can do is just sit and watch while your jaw drops onto the floor at the fact that FUCKING FRIGHTENING gun-toting, fundamentalist, freaky deaky WEIRDOES like this even have a VOICE in that big ole country over there, let alone can stand as candidates for the most powerful job in the world.
Listen, I know loads of Americans, and they're all decent, intelligent, hard-working, perfectly normal people. I lived there. People were normal. And nice. And sane. Those two up there? Their very existence? It's what makes us Europeans look at your country and assume you're all trigger-happy, pro-life, religious zealout, war mongering HICKS who haven't got a brain cell between you. And all we can do is sit here once every four years and shout at you and say PLEASE DON'T ELECT THESE PEOPLE. What the fuck else are we supposed to do? See all those caps up there, I'm trying to express frustration here, because I really, honestly don't know what else to do. The idea that these two even stand a TINY CHANCE of becoming the two most powerful people in the world, not only does it scare me to death, but it's just a fact that I cannot, intellectually, get my head around. It doesn't compute.
Please tell me this isn't happening. Help a non-citizen out here.
Scares the SHIT out of me. Her especially. The idea that these two might actually be elected is enough to make me REALLY REALLY QUESTION our decision to move to SF. PLEASE, SOMEONE TELL ME THAT THIS ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN. PLEASE. I get this powerless feeling of dread every four years, much as I expect other Europeans do. All you can do is just sit and watch while your jaw drops onto the floor at the fact that FUCKING FRIGHTENING gun-toting, fundamentalist, freaky deaky WEIRDOES like this even have a VOICE in that big ole country over there, let alone can stand as candidates for the most powerful job in the world.
Listen, I know loads of Americans, and they're all decent, intelligent, hard-working, perfectly normal people. I lived there. People were normal. And nice. And sane. Those two up there? Their very existence? It's what makes us Europeans look at your country and assume you're all trigger-happy, pro-life, religious zealout, war mongering HICKS who haven't got a brain cell between you. And all we can do is sit here once every four years and shout at you and say PLEASE DON'T ELECT THESE PEOPLE. What the fuck else are we supposed to do? See all those caps up there, I'm trying to express frustration here, because I really, honestly don't know what else to do. The idea that these two even stand a TINY CHANCE of becoming the two most powerful people in the world, not only does it scare me to death, but it's just a fact that I cannot, intellectually, get my head around. It doesn't compute.
Please tell me this isn't happening. Help a non-citizen out here.
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Her speech was full of lies and took cheap shots at democrats (and not even intelligent ones). Like this one:
Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.
He said, quote, “I can’t stand John McCain.” Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we’ve chosen the right man. Clearly what the Majority Leader was driving at is that he can’t stand up to John McCain.
What kind of intelligence is behind that? That's like a baseless insult from a 10 year old.
I am convinced that Republicans don't think. They like shouting, insults, and displays of bravado. They are a huge reason as to why this country is so divided. Talk like that will only divide people even further, not bring them together.
I am constantly dumbfounded at how a large group of people can be so stupid. I want America to return to AMERICA and not be this dumbass country that has lost its mind. It really scares me too.
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It's just so surreal to watch it unfold. I just want to take people and say GET OUT and LOOK AT YOURSELVES FROM OVER HERE. You look like a bunch of retards. Because I KNOW YOU'RE NOT. It's the most frustrating feeling in the world. That, and those two up there, they're going to fuck America and Americans into the ground until there is nothing left of the economy and the freedoms they keep self-righteously shouting at other countries about. And that is SO OBVIOUS from over here on the outside. If I'm feeling this dread, I cannot begin to image how normal, sane American voters feel. This election is scaring me.
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Talking to modern-day republicans (neo-conservatives) is exactly like talking some sense into insane people. It's a new breed of republican; common sense and compassion just seems to bounce off of them. And they're proud of it.
So there's really no hope in reasoning with them. I've tried for years with my parents, who are republicans through and through. The only hope I can see is educating the younger people and hoping that the next generation will be smarter and make the right decisions in the future.
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This is exactly it. We see it, but the quantity of dumb Americans to the quantity of educated Americans is like the quantity of birds to grass. We see it, we know its wrong. But even if every single one of us shows up at the polls and votes for Obama, we still might not outweigh the dumb Americans.
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Nicely put.
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It's BECAUSE they're a large group that they're stupid. People in large groups tend to stop thinking and just do what their leader tells them (look at mod mentality and cults) because it's 'easier' than making your own decisions.
'I want America to return to AMERICA and not be this dumbass country that has lost its mind.'
Yeah, if McCain gets elected I don't think that will happen any time soon.