I have seen nothing on any type of social media, including any message boards, that leads me to believe that people are aware of their surroundings.
While that statement may be and probably is inherently untrue, you wouldn't ever know that from the partisan diatribes pervading every aspect of on-line chatter. I have yet to read a post (excepting LM's) or blurb on FB that was anything but blindly partisan and disparaging.
Even in the arena of measured discourse, I am greeted with this left handed shot at the mere nomination of a VP;
Voronwë the Faithful wrote:Well, Romney has made it official: the race is between Obama and Paul Ryan. Has a presidential candidate ever so blatantly acknowledged their own irrelevancy?
Really? What portion of that post is fair and in any way an attempt of furthering the conversation or truly trying to depict the status of Washington politics?
I get that people want to get behind a candidate that puts forth their own ideals. I get that it is right that everyone should be able to marry or receive health benefits. That doesn't mean for one nano second that I should buy into that candidates rhetoric, or turn a blind eye into what has and has not transpired these last four years.
I am a liberal and I am ashamed of what has happened.
The lack of leadership has been appalling, and the same old political lies that every politician lets slip from their lips is more than I can tolerate at this point. I can never ever ever forgive Obama for for conveniently letting slip forth that he would bring the troops back home, even though he knew full well that was a promise he could never keep. Unforgivable.
Just because he supports a health care system for all, doesn't mean this particular system is sound or is right for this country. He has no ability to get bills passed, even though half of the congress is in his favor, yet Bill Clinton, for all of his warts, managed to be a decent president despite having to deal with a republican controlled house and senate.
Nothing short of indignant rage suffices here. Rage against Washington politics as usual, despite being sold a bill of goods labelled hope and change. Rage against, yet again, having those hopes being played upon by another politician seeking office, and more than anything, rage against people that are willing to blindly and effusively support that type of unacceptable behavior.
Mitt Romney? Are you freaking kidding me?
He actually has a chance and there is no one to blame for that but Obama and the sycophants that haven't the ability to see no further than their nose or their own agendas.
The system is nothing short of despicable, and anyone that prescribes to it for the perceived furthering of their ideals is doing nothing but adding to the woe that is this country.
I have lived in a state in which Mitt Romney was governor and I can state unequivocally that he was by far the worst governor in my lifetime.
The fact that he has a shot at winning this election is more than enough to make me want to vomit volumes of disgust. The fact that people want to bandwagon jump an unacceptable president because he has perceived ideals makes me want to vomit more volumes of disgust.
Obama is unacceptable. Romney is unacceptable. Washington politics is unacceptable.
Stop accepting the lesser of two evils and right this ship!!
Anything less is acceptance and part of the problem!