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In reply to the discussion: I simply don't understand how voters can turn their backs on a President who brought us back from [View all]heaven05
(18,124 posts)never again see a person run for the presidency who would be willing to sacrifice their life for our democracy. We will get, no matter the person occupying the presidency, what the bankers and MIC want. Nothing more and probably much less for me as a retiree. I'm not fooled by the pretentious nature of our so called democracy. I vote on principle with no real expectation of any change in the destruction of the middle class, the ability of the rich to get richer and the MIC being able to have perpetual war around the globe or a change in lobbyist money having the power to create and steer direction of laws and their passing or not. Nothing, in general, will ever pass that will be in our, the citizens, best interest(s). That is power that the average voter in this country will never have, vote or not. Did I mention SCOTUS? I better not, I will be banned for the use of very foul language.
I understand what you are implying and I wish we had a POTUS willing to get his/her head blown apart because she/he stood up to the MIC and bankers. WE WILL NOT EVER HAVE ONE AGAIN. I vote because too much blood has soaked into american soil for that right even as the immense money involved has made it an almost meaningless exercise. I really don't have much disagreement with you, I just cannot stop seeing the smoke and mirrors this 'democracy' is.