Reply #28: You did it again.

[gumby]

You (seemingly) equated asking questions about how our governing system works to living life miserably. This is the same baloney Rush Limbaugh spouts every day.

It goes like this: Democracy isn't a participatory exercise, it's a state of mind. That state of mind is to not notice anything around you except your immediate wants and needs. Limbaugh preaches that faux 'libertarian' pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps; your thinking is all that's important. It's all about thinking about yourself and ignoring the community, country and world you live in. If you think anything other than cheery thoughts about yourself (as you've already illustrated), well then, you are a defeatist and you will be miserable and will loose elections.

Rush is a great example of a mind control propagandist and you are saying, basically, the same thing as him. Take that out for a trot around the track.