For those who don't know me, I'd like to give a brief summation of my personal beliefs: I am a liberal elite. In other words, I am pro-choice, anti-religion, pro-marijuana legalization, pro-governmental regulation, anti-free markets, I believe in a safe, habitable environment, etc. You get the hint.
In this day and age, all of our rights and freedoms are becoming increasingly challenged, and Americans have a right to be angry about it. However, as much as I try to be objective about politics, I seriously CAN NOT understand why the general public voted for so many republicans. Even my home state of Illinois, well-known for being a solid democratic state, decided that our state senator should be a republican.
In theory, this is all well and good. Republicans believe in the free markets, non-regulation, and less government involvement in our everyday decisions. Unfortunately, in the real world, the republicans have proven to be nothing less than INSANE!!! No offense to you conservatives out there, but you can't seriously believe that in today's world, your ideas will actually work can you? The republicans vowed to cut taxes for the wealthy, repeal "Obamacare", and, most maddening, REPEAL FINANCIAL REFORM!!! The Tea-Party themselves don't even HAVE a real plan! All the wanna do is cut stuff, but whenever you ask them what they wanna cut, they NEVER give you a direct answer!
I admit that I'm not the smartest cookie in the jar, but I do pride myself on having @ least half-way decent common sense. Let's look @ the facts. The Glass-Steagall Act, founded in 1933, which instituted regulations for banking practices, was repealed in 1999 under the tenure of Pres. Clinton as an act of compromise with republicans whining about the authenticity of free markets. With the war in Iraq, failures of Pres. Bush, including the disaster of Katrina, our country was digging itself into a huge economic hole. Then everything went to shit when the financial fuck-up of '08 occurred, requiring the taxpayers money to bail out the huge banks (which would have fallen by free market standards) to avert a national disaster. Even Bush himself prided himself on breaking free market principles to save the free market system.
Americans, GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK HEADS!!!! The free market system DOES NOT WORK!! Well, let me be more specific. IT DOES NOT WORK - FOR US!!! Unless you're one of the financial elite, in the top 1% of economic wealth, free markets will not work for you! Despite your hate for "big government", it is unquestionably needed to keep big business in check. Think about it like this. If you owned a store with expensive merchandise, yet you had no security cameras, no security guards, no censors attached to the merchandise, how in the hell could you protect your store?!?! Your workers and your customers would still stuff all the time!!!
That's why our government works on a system of checks and balances. That's why business has a system of checks and balances. Every business gets audited by independent companies, including the auditors themselves. That's how the Enron scandal came to pass - Enron was cooking its books, paying Arthur Anderson to look the other way. Then it came to light that Arthur Anderson had done faulty audits of other institutions. DO YOU KNOW HOW COMMON THIS WOULD BE WITH NO REGULATION?!?!?
As for cutting taxes for the wealthy, somebody please tell me how this is supposed to help our country! Somebody tried to explain to me that by cutting taxes for the wealthy, they'll be more likely to "invest in the businesses that create jobs". There's only one problem with that - THE EVIDENCE CLEARLY SHOWS THAT THAT WOULD NOT HAPPEN!!! The wealthy could do that RIGHT NOW if they wanted to, but they don't. Cutting taxes would do nothing but put more money into their bank accounts.
On top of everything, people are still denying climate change and refusing to partake in helping the environment. This is despicable and it needs to stop. Solar, wind, bio-fuel and many other alternative energies should be common-place by now, but because of big business and people's stubbornness regarding sacrificing for the good of our country, we are in a supremely dangerous place. If we don't make a change now, we might have to start looking towards Mars or the moons of Uranus for living.
America, the results of this election clearly show, without a shadow of a doubt, that you have seriously FAILED! You know you fucked up right? We have got to stop this madness once and for all or we as a people will be DOOMED! WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE!!!!
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