Help! I'm conflicted

[Suji to Seoul]

While I am enjoying watching the practitioners of avarice and greed (the business criminal) die off in this sluggish recession (YES, NOT DOWNTURN), I realize the ramifications are immense and will hurt so many people who weren't even a part of the criminal culture.

Gordon Gecko's "greed is good" line from the movie Wall Street has turned on itself. Greed has brought us this.

While I enjoy watching these people burn and really would like to see it continue (since I loathe business criminals more than street criminals), I truly want don't want to see the little get get crushed.

Sadly, I believe the little guy is going to get not only crushed but liquefied.

Which leads me to my final point: How can my fellow Americans want to vote for the party that brought us this? Are we truly a nation of stumps?

[radfringe]

1. we're a

bag of doorknobs being led by a box of rocks

[rateyes]

3. No offense to rocks. nt

[tazkcmo]

2. Yes n/t

[ClassWarrior]

4. No, we're a nation of mostly decent people who got taken in by con men.

NGU.

[stillcool]

5. To snatch a phrase from the 80's

they are co-dependent and desperately in need of an intervention.

[pipi_k]

6. Being conflicted is a huge pain

and I often feel that way myself, even over relatively minor issues

In this case, though, I console myself with the thought that perhaps many of those "little guys" might have been the very same people who voted for the government that crushed and liquefied them. In which case, they deserve whatever they get, and more.

As for your final question, how can our fellow Americans want to vote for a party that brought many of us to ruination...all I can say is that there a hell of a lot of masochists out there. Insane masochists. I'm pretty sure most of us know by now what the definition of insanity is...doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.

McCain and Palin talk about "change", but it's really going to be the Same Old Shit, repackaged. Many people will vote for the Same Old Shit because they love being kicked in the face. Maybe they just enjoy being martyrs and victims, who knows....

:shrug: