The Will to be STUPID is Strong in this Country....

[not_hathor]

I haven't been this disappointed in my fellow American voters since they elected Jimmy Carter president....


Unfortunately, I no longer have the option of moving to Canada.


*sigh*

Comments

[myaibou.livejournal.com]

Cheer up. Dems still control the Senate and the White House. This was supposed to be a huge tidal wave and it wasn't. And that voter anger will swing in the other direction by 2012, just watch.

Go watch Jon Stewart's rally speech. You'll feel better. :)

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm more bummed out about the stupidity across the river in Iowa -- three State Supreme Court judges lost their retention votes; not because they were incompetant or corrupt, but because they were part of a unanimous vote declaring that Iowa's law against same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.....

Sort of expected the GOP backlash here in Illinois -- &@*$#! Blago-bits!!!!!

[myaibou.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hadn't heard that. GRRR.

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

The good news is that the stupid FAILED to approve a Constitutional Assembly, which they need in order to change the state Constitution.

I really wished, on election day, that I still lived in Iowa

[reziac.livejournal.com]

Montana also failed a Constitutional whazit... thank all the gods, living, dead, real, or imaginary. With today's short-term thinking, any change to such a document is a frightening prospect.

"You should not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered."
-- Lyndon Johnson,
36th President of the U.S.

"Formerly, we suffered from crimes. Now, we suffer from laws."
-- Tacitus

[edmondia.livejournal.com]

What. >.> That law is fucking amazing.

Also it's just embarrassing to be from the midwest today.

[aliceathome.livejournal.com]

What did you do in Canada which means you can't move there????

*mind boggles*

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

*Jane!!! Long time no see!*

Well, 30 years ago, I was an unattached potentially footloose and fancy- free college graduate with zero to none by way of obligations. Nowadays, I have a good job, a reasonably good marriage with husband who also has a reasonably decent job, high maintenance child on the verge of going off to college, two dogs, and a house.

Can't exactly pick up and leave the country anymore, no matter HOW stupid my fellow voters get.

[tsutsuji.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Come to Vermont. Almost as good as Canada.

(I don't quite dare look at all the national results yet.)

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

See my reply to *aliceathome* -- I've put down too many 'roots' here in the state of confusion (aka, Illinois in particular and the MidWest in general) during the years since Jimmy Carter.

*sigh*

[reziac.livejournal.com]

Oh, nowhere else came near to California for stupid this time around... I swear, leftwing liberal wacko isn't a political stance, it's a learning disability. Despite an approval rating at an all-time low of just 14%, ALL of the incumbents statewide were re-elected, AND they opted for a second round of Governor Moonbeam, as if the tax-and-spend frenzy he initiated (that never really died since) during his first time around wasn't warning enough. CA is $18 BILLION in the hole and has another $70B in unfunded future liabilities, and now we've got a Dem supermajority, AND the idiots voted to let the state legislature pass a budget (translation: raise taxes) on a simple majority instead of the former 2/3rds vote ... so there'll be NO brakes on the tax-and-spend insanity.

AND they nixed a start of legalizing/taxing smalltime commercial marijuana farming, which would at least have bowed to reality (it's CA's #1 cash crop), not to mention would have bailed out the state's huge deficit.

And they wonder why unemployment is pushing 13% and still rising... when the state is driving jobs away as fast as it can wield the whip (for every 3 new businesses, 100 leave the state due to skyrocketing costs and micromanaging legislation, both mainly Dem-pushed). Did you ever see any wages paid by poor folks? No??? Then maybe you can understand why we NEED business, and NEED the so-called "rich" (which CA defines as "anyone who owns a business". Thanks to all this I'm now so damned "rich", I'm having to cash out my retirement fund just to survive.)

And next time a draconian modern-liberal-backed and HSUS-funded anti-dog-breeder law comes down the pipe, it will pass in CA without serious opposition. (Know what's going to happen because of such a law that just passed in Missouri? An estimated 140,000 dogs will be confiscated and/or killed, for no reason other than a kennel owning more than 50 dogs is now illegal there. I have 68 here right now myself, which is hardly unusual for a longtime serious breeder.)

As to the U.S. Congress, the Founding Fathers designed the system to promote GRIDLOCK. Ideally, they wanted NOTHING to happen, and NO laws to get passed. The system absolutely needs strong opposition at every turn, or it fails in exactly the way we've been seeing for the past two years.

CA is now the poster-child for the Dems, since they have 100% control top to bottom with NO opposition at any level... hey, if those policies work so well, let's see them working in California!! Come on, now's your chance!!

The truth is there is NO freedom without economic freedom, which includes the freedom of property (and that means your own home, family, and your own body too). If you can't afford to exercise a "right", *you don't have it.* When you vote for the left, you vote AGAINST property rights, and that ultimately WILL reflect against personal rights. History has proven that time and again.