Last night I heard the REPUBLICAN candidate saying that we should nationalize mortgages, and more government control of healthcare.
This election does not include a republican. McCain is basically mouthing a watered-down version of the same stuff that the Dems are proposing.
This is not a contest between someone on the right, and someone on the left. It is a contest between someone on the middle left, and someone on the far left.
It's simply a matter of degree.
I'm still going to vote for McCain, as the lessor of two evils, but I will do so with a heavy sinking heart.
Part of me actually wishes that Obama DOES win. Vino and I would be out of here in a year, and we could wave as the country goes to socialist crap. Most of my friends live offshore at this point already.
It's a shame, and I love my country, (I fought for it for god's sake), but I'm not going to wait around here forever. Frankly, even if Obama loses, I can see the writing on the wall. This place is going more and more left wing, with government taking over more and more of it, while convincing people that they all need to be taken care of and controlled like children. It's enough to make me cry sometimes.
The thing that made this country great and different and the world power that it has become is that people were self reliant, self driven, free to pursue goals in a capitalist, free market economy. Now it's going to turn into a mediocre nanny state with a nicely even low standard of living....
The popular mainstream news media has become so openly left-biased that the whole thing is becoming a joke. The government screws up by interfering with banks risk-management practices for populist political gain, then turns around and blames the private sector for the problem when it falls apart and then moves in to take control.... The whole country seems to be turning into sheep with very short term memories and it's just depressing to watch.
