georgephillip
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It would certainly be easier to make changes if the 99% would spend more time looking for common ground than for ways to undermine each others arguments. There does appear to be a centuries-old divide between conservatives and liberals that is on display today.This government is vastly inefficient and corrupt beyond Einstein's imagination.That's a broad sweeping generalization about the left. IMO, government is wasteful and inefficient. We can cut back without hurting people.
I have no problem with reducing the size of the government. I have a problem with keeping the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
The Pentagon and HUD seem to be where much of the fraud takes place with Wall Street and the 1% positioned to reap the profits.
I don't see how to change that at the polls by "choosing" between Republican OR Democrat.
I understand your point. We can't give up and give in to despair. What I'm not going to do, is be at war with other citizens over left or right leaning solutions to our very dire financial circumstances, as a country and worldwide.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, some of Monarchy's most loyal servants were rural conservatives who choose their king over democracy. Like many of today's conservatives they were very good foot soldiers, perfectly willing to die or kill innocent human beings for the glory of their assorted Lords and Masters.
Despair won't help us find the right answers; however, any solutions we do find will not be politically acceptable to well over one-third of contemporary US voters, probably.