[originally written as reply elsewhere, and posted here instead b/c of length & topic.]
( Constitutional law, economic policy forebearers, and a few other points. )
Frankly, fearmongering about how the world will change if someone (anyone) is elected president is just muddying the waters. I mean, my life, and our world, has changed radically in the past eight years. For crying out loud, eight years ago I had an excellent job, I had top benefits, our nation was running a surplus, and for the most part, things were manageable, if not pretty damn good. Now we're so far into debt that our country owes $30K for every man, woman, AND child; we're fighting two different wars and we just bombed Syria; health insurance and medicine costs are astronomical; our environment's screwed; New Orleans remains in shambles and no one even remembers Biloxi and Ocean Springs; the Patriot Act is still around and the govt still maintains constitution-mutilating rights to spy on its own citizens; we have a pro-torture policy in violation of the Geneva Convention; we have a president who violates constitutional and legislative due process using line-item vetos and signing statements to negate laws even as he's signing them into law; and a good chunk of the jobs I qualify for are now being occupied by workers in Montreal and India.
Yeah, from where I stand, when someone says, "the world will change! it will be completely different from what it's like now!" I say: I sure as hell HOPE so.
( Constitutional law, economic policy forebearers, and a few other points. )
Frankly, fearmongering about how the world will change if someone (anyone) is elected president is just muddying the waters. I mean, my life, and our world, has changed radically in the past eight years. For crying out loud, eight years ago I had an excellent job, I had top benefits, our nation was running a surplus, and for the most part, things were manageable, if not pretty damn good. Now we're so far into debt that our country owes $30K for every man, woman, AND child; we're fighting two different wars and we just bombed Syria; health insurance and medicine costs are astronomical; our environment's screwed; New Orleans remains in shambles and no one even remembers Biloxi and Ocean Springs; the Patriot Act is still around and the govt still maintains constitution-mutilating rights to spy on its own citizens; we have a pro-torture policy in violation of the Geneva Convention; we have a president who violates constitutional and legislative due process using line-item vetos and signing statements to negate laws even as he's signing them into law; and a good chunk of the jobs I qualify for are now being occupied by workers in Montreal and India.
Yeah, from where I stand, when someone says, "the world will change! it will be completely different from what it's like now!" I say: I sure as hell HOPE so.