Orkin said:
First of all, the U.S. is not a democracy, it's a REPUBLIC.
Second, well...you're right, we don't have a free press, they're controlled by the leftists...
Third, umm...give me an example of the free speech one...oh wait, you don't have one, you just made it up...
Fourth, uh...what do you constitute as a "real election"? Oh, let me guess...when a lying idiot like Kerry wins...right? A man that says he's against outsourcing, yet most of his income comes from his wife's company, Heinz - a company with 90% of it's factories outside the U.S. A man that says he's against tax cuts for the rich, yet only pays 12% taxes, while everyone else in is tax bracket pays 30%+. A man that says that Bush's tax cuts do nothing for the economy, but make the rich richer, when he knows that allowing business owners to keep more of their money is good for both the economy, and the middle-class. A man that says we need a "fresh start" in Iraq, yet only suggests what the current administration has already been doing for months. A man that says Arafat is a role model that we should look up to. A man that says a 5.1% unemployment rate is "inexcusable" when his own party used a 5.4% unemployment rate as a sign of a strong economy in 1996. A man that can somehow vote for something before he votes against it. A man with zero integrity, that will change his position whenever he believes it will benefit him politically...
Yeah, I can honestly say I'm happy we won't have that man as a president...
I'm gonna have to slam you here, sorry. Kerry is a douche. I didn't want Kerry. I voted for David Cobb. Find me a leftist news source (besides maybe indymedia.org), and I'll be in shock. CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, TIME/WARNER, FOX, MSN, and others are all major corporations that have effectively paid Bush to ensure that they give very little back to the country that makes their buisness model possible, and sit more in the conservative side on every major issue. Their primary function at this point is to dumb down the populace with stories about J-LO and Brittney's boyfriends rather than to serve any actual news. The Daily Show (which is a comedy show) offers up a higher standard of journalism than any of the "news" shows that currently air like: Bill O'Reilly, crossfire, rush limbaugh, 60 minutes, headline news, and all the regular evening news shows on cbs/abc/nbc/upn/etc. Actually, The Daily Show is probably the only place to get ANY real news, left, right or otherwise, and it comes on right after a show where puppets crank call people. So yeah, the media is fucked, but not in a leftist way. Their corporate right offs smell a little laisse faire to be anything but a neauvo reaganomics, although I have no idea how to spell half of those words.
Here's a glaring example of how the constitution (not just free speech) is infringed, compromised, no longer a legal issue for fascists in this country to worry about: Right to assemble and right to free speech are often lumped under the crime "inciting a riot". Describe the right to assemble and the right to speak freely in any other terms, it'll still carry hefty fines and or jail time. Here's another example:
FUCK
What I just did is indecent, immoral, and illegal. Technically I could go to court for it, though it's not likely to happen because 90% of the population is doing it, so FUCK again.
"A man that says that Bush's tax cuts do nothing for the economy, but make the rich richer, when he knows that allowing business owners to keep more of their money is good for both the economy, and the middle-class." This idea ties back to "Laisse Faire" which is why the French Revolution happened, possibly the bloodiest peasant uprising in history. Need more examples of how that ideology has failed EVERY time it has been tried? Here ya go:
Pre-civil war economics: Laisse Faire
Pre-WWI economics: Laisse Faire
Post WWI German economy (and the subsequent rise of Hitler): Laisse Faire
The Great depression: The planet starved (millions literally) while a few key figures increased their net worth beyond recognition.
All of these things lead to:
WWII, where half the planet was trying to kill the other half so that people could afford bread.
The Reagan era: Laisse Faire (preceded the biggest stock market crash in history other than the start of the great depression, during Bush Sr.'s term when baby jessica was in the well.
The current dictatorship that came to power under a false election in the year 2000: The economy has lost more jobs than in all of american HISTORY, the deficit is completely out of control, our trade deficit is too, and all of our children will be paying for this indefinitely.
Simply stated: Laisse Faire doesn't work, never has, and is a very bad economic idea put forth by a few wealthy individuals who can use it to gain even more money and power, and live on parts of the planet generally uneffected by the ravages of war. Dress it any way you want, read some history, it's a STUPID IDEA. People starving on any part of the economic spectrum is NEVER good for the economy, that is until war finally breaks out, which is VERY good for the economy, but is that price really worth a few extra bucks in the Rockefeller/Blue blood accounts? Not in my mind.
The rest of your paragraph slams Kerry, who was in the same fraternity as Bush, and by and large is just as much of a douche bag as Bush is, except of course that he is not retarded and can form and finish complete sentences, something that eludes our current Daddy's boy. I think it's hillarious that the democrats would try to push somebody as unelectable as Kerry. What real MAN would vote for a guy who's had cosmetic surgery (barring a guy who maybe had half his face burned off or something)? Kerry is a douche though, I agree with the rest of your paragraph. The two party system is completely broken, this is NOT a democracy, and hence it's ridiculously hypocritical for bush to look in the camera and say "They hate freedom." When clearly he has NO interest in it himself (Patriot act and police state anyone?).
The only real solution is (maybe) IRV which will never happen because the same corporations that control BOTH major parties and all the news media will never LET it happen, they have way too much to loose.
PLEASE PLEASE, if you're going to at all address me in a political debate at least read what I've already written. Furthermore, you'd do well to study a little HISTORY, as all of this is a repeat of what's happened in other countries before, and to disastrous effect.
