Reply #4: Too funny

[PurityOfEssence]

Yes, they'll end us all if they had their way. it'd be sad for them if they succeed though, because what's the use of massive wealth if you can't feel superior to others?

Sadly, the poverty issue is always a hard row to hoe in this country; the reactionaries have so pitted the "have littles" against the "have nots" that any political momentum to help the poor is met with the fear mongering that to help the poor would tax the rest of us out of whatever comfort we've managed to attain. It's just like the approach to curbing affirmative action: "them other no-accounts is gonna take yer jobs".

I love John Edwards, as anyone who's been hanging around this board for the last 5 years knows, and yes, he's the real deal. Perhaps some goodness of the American character can be cobbled together into a coalition to be responsible human beings, but my assessment of the current situation is rather bleak.

The reactionaries of this country are nothing more than parasites, and even as their policies will destroy the whole system, this matters naught to them; immediate gain and gain beyond any rational limits is all that matters. These people are looters, looting from the past by not sustaining the infrastructure and looting from the future by saddling our children with crushing debt. It's the dark side of the American character: getting away with something.

This too shall not necessarily pass.

Nice punch-line, though; sorry for being such a downer.

Edwards truly could be the one to heal this country. Knuckle-dragging functionaries from red areas can't let their constituents see them talking with some northeastern thinkin' type like Kerry, but they could be seen with a backwoods progressive southerner like Johnny, and much as we all hate the forces of selfishness and blockheaded conservatism, we need to bridge the divide for anything substantive to happen.

Stay tuned.