I recommend all voters actually pay attention to the things that matter this next election cycle. Personally, the way I see it, if they do not, this country could fall. I happen to have witnessed that. In my experience, it is almost invariablty due to the arrogance of those in power.
Originally Posted by: dfosterf
You're an optimist my friend. IMO, it is no longer a question of if, only of when.
I think the problem goes beyond one of arrogance and power. It is a nation whose people legitimate that arrogance and power every time they go to those in power to solve problems and coerce their neighbors. I consider the current Pretende the worst occupant of the Oval Office in my lifetime, and as a historian I consider only Wilson to have been worse, but the reality is that spoiled brat would have no power, or even influence, had the American people not abdicated their responsibilties.
A country that can't do better than elect the previous idiot, twice, and follow it by electing the current idiot, not once, but twice, has lost its way. A country that gives sinecures to the likes of Pelosi, Reid, Harkin, Hastert, et al, has lost its way. A country whose citizens tolerate the Patriot Act, the TSA, Executive Order after Executive Order, and a hundred thousand pages of new restrictions on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness year after year, has lost its way.
No, it is more than that. The people of this country have not only lost their way, they have no idea they are lost.
Sometimes I really wish I had a spaceship and could become a prospector in the asteroid belt.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)