One thing about THIS election:

[PCIntern]

there's no shortage of assholes for people of a certain mind to hate. Not hate as in "I hate the Yankees" or "I hate winter" or "I hate time changes", it is hate as in Barbara Bush Sr. kind of hate. Those of us old enough to remember that paragon of virtue and lightness of being Richard Nixon recall that he corrected Bob Haldeman when Haldeman accused Nixon of hating everybody, by saying that he was an amateur compared to Barbara Bush, now SHE knows how to hate.

I mean, who in a million years would ever think that the son of a candidate for the Presidency of our great land, would tell a radio interviewer that he wanted to punch out the President of these United States? Unfathomable just 12 short years ago, but de riguer now. Who would have believed that a candidate for President would berate and otherwise abuse a debate moderator, who just happened to be female, not once but twice in two weeks, knowing full well that half the people who vote are women? Can it be so that a sitting United States Senator would tell a debate audience to look at his opponent because he did not think that she looked like a Native American, even though she had been told by her family since she was a wee one that she had Native American heritage? When did you ever hear the son of a former governor of a moderate state state during his father's campaign that the sitting President could go back to Kenya from whence he came? Perhaps most importantly, did you ever think that you would hear media folk embrace a candidate who "won" a debate by screaming over the moderator, ignoring instructions, and lying continuously through his blood-caked teeth?

How can you win an argument by telling lies? Does this validate Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin? Would the mainstream media in the United States feel that Hitler had posited his anti-Semitic rants so well that he was America's best hope for the future?

You tell me the answers to these questions. I, quite frankly, have no idea where this is all going. All I know is that I am now filled with hatred after years and years of listening to lies and the lying liars who tell them without reproach, without reprimand, and without anxiety.

[lumpy]

1. So true.

Are we going to become a fascist nation inspite of the Constitution of the US? Complacency could be our downfall. I think of Germany.

[porphyrian]

2. We need to vote and tell them what we think about them. Records are already being broken.

If we all vote, and all the votes are counted, President Obama will win this election.

[solara]

3. You have articulated what I have been feeling

so very well.

thank you for posting

I hate that I have been hating so much for so long and I hate the haters that gave me the reason to hate.

I don't want to be a hater, so I fight against it but it is becoming increasingly difficult.



p.s. I already voted

[phantom power]

4. We are in late Kondratieff fall, and that's always the season without consequences

Winter is coming, which is both good news and bad news.