When one's political policies have demonstrably failed the last argument remaining is to claim equivalency with the opposing view. It is the final, futile defense.
The truth of the matter is that very few of us here like the GOP, and most of us were very wary of George W. Bush. We disagreed with most of what he did. What kept us going was the certainty that things would have been a heck of a lot worse had the Democrats been in charge. Only a Kool-Aid drinking, disillusioned idiot would fail to see that the past six years have borne that out.
Most Americans today are afraid of capitalism and free markets because they have never lived in a time when the game wasn't rigged. Those of us who are a bit older can remember economic expansion, upward mobility, people fully engaged, and an America coming together under the idea of limitless possibilities.
We are in desperate need of a leader who can articulate that vision again, and a people who will embrace it.
Polled, most people would say that they don't trust A) Democrats, or B) Republicans in probably equal numbers.
But if asked a follow-up question of whether or not they trust government, I think a majority of those polled who responded to either A or B of the first question, would answer "no" to the second.
Government is made up of both "A" and "B", and even Reagan said that government was the problem.
We all keep trying to make the argument that some individual will show up and make everything "right" by being a "leader"; we're always looking for a savior.
There simply ain't one coming, and if that person ever does show up they will meet a fate very similar to the last one that came here, at the hands of the very same people... those whose power will be threatened by his existence.
There is only one solution, and
Thomas Jefferson knew what that solution is.
