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StrangerThan -> RE: New Hampshire has the right idea - wow. (2/14/2009 8:01:42 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Irishknight
Just a small thing I noticed. All of those now saying "If you don't like the US, the borders are open to leave" got very angry when the other side said the same thing only a year ago. Its amazing how some people sound just like those they condemned a year ago. "Change" should mean more than switching places.
Exactly.
I listened to the same crap for 8 years from the other side. Politics in this country has, for most of my life, had a pendulum type of movement where it gravitated back and forth between left and right. It no longer gravitates. The swings are abrupt and each side in power is just as intolerant and spiteful towards the other. We had 8 years of Bush paying homage to those on the far right. What we have now looks like it's going to be paying homage to the far left. Both sides have the "we're in power, sit down and shut up" attitude towards the other. Both sides also consider a few million votes out of more than a hundred million as a mandate. The US is fairly evenly divided between those who lean left and those who lean right, but that divide has become sharper and sharper over the years until its more like a chasm now.
What is surprising me is the vehemence some have now. There's always been heated debate back and forth but most of the people I've recently talked to either have no faith in the stimulus or are incredibly angry that it passed. Its not the stimulating part that angers them so much, nor the trillion or two sitting behind the scenes to act as bail out money, it is what they see as using the state of the economy to push through a socialist agenda.
Doesn't surprise me that states are passing such resolutions. I live in one that is. If I were given the opportunity to vote yea or nay on it, I'd vote yea - not because I hate Obama or Democrats, but because it's the way this country is supposed to be.
Just in case anyone wonders, I don't care much for Republicans either. That "I" designation has been beside my name for a long time.
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