Originally posted by DR1665
Oh jeez. Are we going back into this? Bush is not the devil. Bush is not evil. Bush is just another man who was rightfully elected to run our country by our citizens. Kerry could do no better. Nor could any other man or woman, dead or alive, for that matter. Our government is of the people by the people and for the people. Guess what. That means it's accurately representative of our society - fat, bloated, corrupt, greedy, and self-centered. Everyone in this country is busy demanding change right up until they learn that the best way to affect change is to do something about it, but that part of change is always someone else's responsibility. We've fucked ourselves into cock's hat. If you think about it, we are the only country in the world made up of people who get their way every time. Just about everywhere else you go in the world, people have spent thousands of years under the boots of monarchs and despots so they might have an ingrained psychological tendency towards more give and take in their governments. Not so in the US. We fought for freedom and we got it. We wanted this and we got it. We wanted that and we got it. We took from the native people and we gave nothing back. We want the biggest, the fastest and the best and we don't want to get our hands dirty. People here need a dose of STFU if you ask me. Too much asking what the country can do for you and not enough asking what you can do for the country. Scratch that. We don't ask the country to do things for us, we expect it. The government is not the problem. The PEOPLE are the problem. We are the whiny child in the store that gets whatever it wants to shut it up. When we are bored with that, we whine for something else. Gimme gimme gimme. Fuck politics.