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[Bohandas]

I am currently in a state of having successfully jumped ship.

It's no bed of roses here either.

Yeah, it always irks me when people jokingly talk about leaving a country over relatively petty things. Relatively in the sense of it doesn't really affect your life enough to move, and your moving leaves no impact upon the thing you are insulted at.

 Or I could dig up the atrocious crap every other 'civilized' country is currently doing, but I already support friendly nationalism so that would be counterproductive.

All roads lead to Hell...

[Siquo]

Come to the Netherlands! If you don't mind the nazi's, that is.

Oh, did I just read that Obama wants "wealth tax"? Finally, your country may be saved, yet!

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/09/201191851213859620.html

[Luke_Prowler]

Come to the Netherlands! If you don't mind the nazi's, that is.

Oh, did I just read that Obama wants "wealth tax"? Finally, your country may be saved, yet!

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/09/201191851213859620.html

If he can pass that AND bomb the Bush tax cuts, Obama would be my favorite president ever (next to Roosevelt)

[Nadaka]

Come to the Netherlands! If you don't mind the nazi's, that is.

Oh, did I just read that Obama wants "wealth tax"? Finally, your country may be saved, yet!

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/09/201191851213859620.html

It isn't a true "wealth tax", just a higher income tax on people earning more than a million dollars per year. It will never pass though. The tea party will start an armed revolution before they allow even one penny of increased taxes for the Koche brothers.

[Criptfeind]

How do we not even have I mean whats the point of not having a flat tax rate if you can't have increases.

[kaijyuu]

Obviously so we can tax the poor a larger percentage of their income.

[Vector]

Thanks, GOP.

Now this is just stupid.

[kaijyuu]

Yep.

Not much more to say about that.

[Heron TSG]

Thanks, GOP.

Now this is just stupid.

If Rick Perry can fuck up Texas that much more than it already was, I don't even want to think about what he would try to do to America as a whole.

[Aklyon]

Good lord, why do we suddenly have so many crazy people running for office. You'd think they're trying to prove 2012 right or something by making it seem like the end of not entirely one-sided presidents.

[ECrownofFire]

So where are the choices to emigrate to if Perry or Bachmann get elected?

[Askot Bokbondeler]

singapore?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Perry and Bachmann aren't getting elected. Bachmann even winning her party's nomination is impossible, she's just way too far-right for even a good portion of Republicans. Perry has a legitimate shot of winning the nomination, but if he does it's going to hand the election to Obama. He's also too far-right to get the support of enough moderates for the election. Mitt Romney is the only republican candidate I can see winning the nomination and the election. There's also Ron Paul to consider. I don't really think he has any chance of winning anything, but he's certainly a wildcard that will leech votes off of the others, especially considering how tenacious he is about his presidential bids.

singapore?

Move from a theoretical oppressive state to an actual oppressive state? Singapore isn't that pleasant when it comes to civil liberty.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

yes, i know. read that with a pint of irony

[Pnx]

I already have a country to go to if things get really bad. But of course I'm worried about the deteriorating state of that country too. I'm getting suddenly vivid images of the way "Ghost in the Shell" depicts the world.

Anyway, rant time.
If I were to describe my political stance, it would most definitely be "nihilist". Frankly speaking, I have no faith in humanity. I think humanity is horribly flawed, and incapable of ultimately overcoming those flaws. At least before it leads to it's own destruction. I think humanity is completely incapable of managing itself.
sigh
But I want to be wrong.

Democracy, as much as we love it brings the problem to the forefront, in it's own way.
To pull a quote:

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried

The root of the issue is the "ignorant masses". The ones who are most easily coerced, and oppressed. The ones who's fears are most easily played upon. Do you want to know what the root of human evil is? It's fear, all of our greatest troubles, faults, misdeads, woes, etc. They find in their roots fear.
I didn't used to believe in evil, at least not the way others do (as a pervading force of destruction and misery, that kind of thing), but I feel somewhat differently now. I think perhaps I was half right, half wrong.
I don't know if there's anything that should be branded "evil", but I know there is fear. Let's pull another quote:

We have nothing to fear but fear itself

The masses are fearful, they don't use the power when they should, and when they do it's often in the wrong way for a cause that was hung in front of them as the carrot to the proverbial donkey.
Who hung the carrot? Well I suppose if fear were evil, then they would be our devils. Fearmongerers in any case...
Welcome to hell...
... Ok, that's excessive, but there's a point there somewhere you should listen to.

Anyway... yes, I want to be wrong about humanity being doomed. If you want to save humanity, you have to teach it to be more insightful, less fearful, and more empowered. Fear is the enemy.
I don't think it can be done though, even the most hard-won lessons fade all to fast into blurred impressions. But I hope I'm wrong.

...
Anyway, confused rant over, I'm off to bed.