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In reply to the discussion: An open letter to folks like myself who cannot in good conscience vote for Obama [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)locking people up for the rest of their lives until they commit suicide or die of old age, without charges and without trials. If it means ending torture and maybe applying the rule of law to War Criminals and Wall Street criminals as vigilently as it is applied to put smokers, that would a start on the long road to Utopia.
I guess the bar for Utopia is so low now, that just ending those Bush policies and just going back to the pre-Bush era, which wasn't that great, but it sure looks like Utopia now.
However since Democrats have embraced all of the Bush policies we were so opposed to now, we are not even close to starting on the road to Utopia. More like going in the opposite direction.
I'd be happy if you were just headed in the right direction.
So, maybe you should consider giving up the use of that ancient talking point, attacking people who are simply asking for a country that doesn't act like a brutal Empire, by telling them they are 'looking for Utopia'.
That is just plain ridiculous. Are you satisfied to be living in a country that was created by Bush/Cheney & Company? Who could have imagined that people on the so-called Left would become so accepting of what once the Left was so vocally opposed to.