Reply #421: I think about it every day, as professional [View All]

skilled in engineering R&D there are more opportunities for me in Europe than in America where Wall Street rewards outsourcing even though the quality is shit (that could change, however). Family member has chronic health condition and the health bill doesn't help us at all as we are middle class. In fact, I can see we will be paying a lot more. Companies are testing taking away benefits like health care and vacation. I've gotten interest from R&D firms in Europe that I am now starting to research.

Americans take a perverse pleasure in other peoples pain which is why we are soft on torture, deny health care and worship corporate greed and corruption. Between outsourcing, privatization of schools, scotus, on and on - if a man who ran on a platform of change can't do better than this - the US is truly fucked.

The only thing we seem to be able to manufacture is wholesale death and destruction. And our leadership cheers on the never ending wars. With a huge percentage of the population employed either as enlisted or career soldiers, DoD civilians, prisons, local law, FBI, CIA, HAS, TSA, ATF Customs, Border patrol, on and on - anyone who says we aren't a police state is full of shit. This is a fucking police state and if there was a mass protest we would be slaughtered in a second. So with the investment in weapons and wiretapping and torture and secret prisons any real opposition doesn't have a change in hell as the right wing nuts in both parties are deliberately intimidating liberals. With corporate control of legislation comes more and more corporate control over military. It really and truly has become a type of fascist country.

Think this is fantasy? This country is turning mean and there is something rotten at the core. I agree it is prototypical sociopathic behavior. Maybe too much TV? Not enough family time? Whatever it is, America is really quite an ugly place right now where even torture gets an approving wink and nod. I don't even recognize today's democrat who looks to me like a Reagan neo-con as they yammer and stammer about about how we need to move forward past torture and the Iraq war and justify the continuing slaughter in Afghanistan.

There is no real opposition to the convergence of both mainstream parties.