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 Kilkrazy wrote:
True.

However it is a ball drop that the Republicans will find it hard to take advantage of with their line-up of hereditary banking billionaires and so on.

The whole affair merely suggests that modern politics is bankrupt of any genuine ideas and cannot address the real concerns of the 90%.

Then we should start our OWN party for the common man!

*crickets*

Sadly the American party for the common man is the Tea Party.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Sadly the American party for the common man is the Tea Party.

Which isn't a *real* party.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Sadly the American party for the common man is the Tea Party.

In that it was largely funded and fueled by billionaires?

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Sadly the American party for the common man is the Tea Party.

It was until it was co-opted by the Koch empire anyway.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
True.

However it is a ball drop that the Republicans will find it hard to take advantage of with their line-up of hereditary banking billionaires and so on.

The whole affair merely suggests that modern politics is bankrupt of any genuine ideas and cannot address the real concerns of the 90%.

Yeah, the underlined does a pretty good job of describing both parties sadly. When you have career politicians and legions of bureaucrats things don't always match the public's experience. I can see why the original Legions got a bit fed up of the Council of Terra

Bad flub. Of course, the difference is that Dems and Reps will take her to task for it. If it had been a Repub who made that comment only Dems would take them to task.

If there's anything more annoying than a rich conservative (Republican) not caring about "the people", its a rich liberal (Demorat) pretending to be of the people.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
If there's anything more annoying than a rich conservative (Republican) not caring about "the people", its a rich liberal (Demorat) pretending to be of the people.

This is something I always thought as weird. If you are a democrat that made it to big league politics, you are worth quite a bit. You are rich, no if ands or buts. But you are championing the the poor?
How is that different from a rebublican who came from the farm and is now rich?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
If there's anything more annoying than a rich conservative (Republican) not caring about "the people", its a rich liberal (Demorat) pretending to be of the people.

This is something I always thought as weird. If you are a democrat that made it to big league politics, you are worth quite a bit. You are rich, no if ands or buts. But you are championing the the poor?
How is that different from a rebublican who came from the farm and is now rich?

Its like British MPs (typically Labour and Liberal Democrat) who claim they attended state Comprehensive schools, but omit to mention that at the time they were school children their schools were Private, selective Grammar schools and were only converted into State schools years after they left.

Or who claim "We're all in this together" (current Conservative Prime Minister W**ker) whilst they cut benefits and raise taxes, then claim expenses to help subsidise the mortgages on their second or third homes.

Or who claim to represent the Working Class, but abolish the lowest personal income tax rate - 10p. (Gordon Brown, our previous, Labour PW).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_allowance#Abolition

And people wonder why im cynical about politics at 21

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
And people wonder why im cynical about politics at 21

I can't imagine why anyone would wonder that. It has been par for the course since at least the 1960's, and that is being very generous.

 Ahtman wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
And people wonder why im cynical about politics at 21

I can't imagine why anyone would wonder that. It has been par for the course since at least the 1960's, and that is being very generous.

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 Jihadin wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
And people wonder why im cynical about politics at 21

I can't imagine why anyone would wonder that. It has been par for the course since at least the 1960's, and that is being very generous.

--->21<---

I doubt you served 20+ years and retired from the military and are also 21 years old.

In case you misunderstood I will rephrase. Being cynical about politics at 21 is not unusual at all; if anything is odd enough to garner attention it would be a 21 year that isn't cynical about politics.

Really? In my experiance if you are not politically involved your looked at weird. or maybe that is a college thing.

Its a college thing.
You bring politics up in the military you get shut down. your there to do a job and not whine about why and who put us there

Edit

Bah I hate smart tablets

 Jihadin wrote:
Its a college thing.
You bring politics up in the military you get shut down. your there to do a job and not whine about why and who put us there

Edit

Bah I hate smart tablets

And if you are an Officer, goof off (Its something my friend said, the officers always pawned their duties off to someone else to go do stupid stuff like watch bootleg DVDs)

You mean "Delegate"

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Really? In my experience if you are not politically involved your looked at weird. or maybe that is a college thing.

Pretending to be politically involved in college is also not unusual. This is more true the closer you are to the Liberal Arts side of campus. STEM doesn't tend to care all that much, or have the time to. Also, don't confuse having a political opinion with being active either.