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We, the people, chose leaders and were betrayed No, we chose leaders who would give us freebies and security vs leaders who would protect our freedoms. The fa
by crusso 13y ago
We, the people, chose leaders and were betrayed
No, we chose leaders who would give us freebies and security vs leaders who would protect our freedoms.
The fact that we have twice elected a President who talks of "fair share" and we don't recognize that language for the trap that it is tells you exactly why we are in this situation today.
- tripzilch 13y ago> The fact that we have twice elected a President who (...) The fact that your alternative to re-electing that guy would've been somebody equivalently bad, tells me that there wasn't a lot of choice involved in the first place. Your betrayal started already before that, with the corruption of choice. The Simpsons laid it out pretty clearly already some decades ago, and instead it seems to have only gotten worse--from "the lesser of two evils" to "the equivalent of two evils" ...