In response to
The American Spirit

wjm, I usually agree with everything that you have to say. In this case, I'd have to make one small change. I firmly believe that this election will be, beyond any doubt, the MOST important election in the history of our once-great nation. We've faced tough times and tough choices before, but there's never been a President who openly and repeatedly ignores and tramples our Constitution and federal laws with such abandon (FDR being a close second). We've also reached a tipping point as far as the media. They've always been biased, it's just that now they don't even bother to pretend to be independent, truth-seeking journalists anymore.

When I went to school, the real push for Socialism didn't start until your first year of college. Since that time, they've lowered the age at which they start Socialist programming into elementary school. This is scary, at least to people who care about freedom, liberty, and the future of this country. My daughter came home from school one day and asked me what political party I belonged to. I advised her that I prefer to think that I'm independent, but that, if forced to pick a party, I'd have to go with the Libertarians. Her eyes got big and she said "But, Libertarians are anarchists!" I asked her where she got that bit of information and she told me that it came directly from her schoolteacher. She was about 11 or 12 at the time. I had to inform her that her teacher was misinformed. I've been to Libertarian group meetings that included judges, doctors, teachers (a few), lawyers, and frankly, some of the smartest people that I've ever met. These people are far from anarchists. The ideas exchanged at those meeting was some of the the smartest, fairest, most well-thought-out speech that I've ever heard in my entire life. The gangsters that comprise the DemoCrip and Rebloodlican gangs are getting worse and worse every year. I've borrowed these gang terms from Jesse ventura, but I think that they fit quite well. I've been forced to hold my nose and vote for the lesser of two evils for far too long. If Oblunder is reelected, it will be the end of this country as a Constitutional Republic, and the beginning of the end for America. The children and grandchildren of today would be the first generation of Americans to live in far worse conditions than their parents, with theri children living their lives as slaves to the state, supporting an ever-growing federal government which is already far, far too large.