Reply #78: edwards will never be president [View All]

[anotherdrew]

only the richest most powerful democrat in the country could become president. Oh wait... there aren't any such people! Folks better hope we sweep up house and senate seats state and federal or some rethug in 2008 will surely come along saying he'll fix dubya's mistakes. And the sheeple will go for it, just like always and vote fraud will be enough to make sure. Sorry, but I'm feeling very pessimistic lately.

We're going to need all branches of government if we expect to reform things in time. It can't go like Clinton's first two years next time. Fairness doctrine needs to go back in place. Partisan spin networks like fox and clear-chanel are going to HAVE to be dealt with. It's not democracy if only one group can get it's message out to the mass population. And it's not so simple as just 'a message'. For decades they've been pushing a terrible psychological warfare operation from all angles. It comes at people from so many different angles, if a person isn't watching out for it... doesn't fight it by seeking out another way in old books and such... it becomes the very colors with which they paint their view of the world, it seeps in from childhood, we've got almost two (short) generations of kids who have never seen a country run by "liberals" with adequate governmental revenue. All they've heard all their lives is rethug spin. A few escape it, but not enough.

It's going to take years to recover, if it can even be done. The US may be irredeemably broken already. The worst people have almost all the money, power and media. There's a lot of the population that directly lives from rethug money too, they spend billions of dollars to make sure that they have millions of people who KNOW that their career/livelihood depends on rethugs maintaining power. They know, help and protect their own, in business and elsewhere.

In the end, we must not simply vote these people out of public office, we must run them out of business, ruin them; let these criminals who have nearly destroyed this country pay the price for such actions. We were not meant to live in a nation ruled by blind corporations, mad preachers, high grand lier's and all their quivering servants.