A Romney presidency will NOT take us back 50 years
There's a graphic going around "On Saturday, don't forget to set your clock back one hour. On Tuesday, try not to set your country back 50 years."
It's cute, but it's not correct. I was in college in 1962 and it was a pretty good time. Wages were rising steadily, energy was cheap, health care was affordable (as was college), we weren't fully engaged in Vietnam yet, the Beatles had their first hit, there was a progressive spirit in the country, JFK was president, and I could get a six pack for 80 cents. Things weren't perfect (abortion and civil rights, for example), but we were moving forward and gaining ground quickly.
Romney/Ryan want to take us back 90 years.
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fifty years is a long, long time ago . . .
We felt the same way when we were that age (I think. My memory isn't what it used to be). 
know is if mitttwit steals the election and gets away with, we are all up a creek. No boat, paddle, boots or future. Won't matter who you are. If you don't go to their side, your days will be numbered.
yeah, it was not all apple pie and mom. Walking on the roads in rural Georgia, no sidewalks folks, I had to walk facing traffic and listening behind me for road crossers. There were still lynchings and extreme racism in public interaction, but hope was starting to blossom. Kennedy and Jackie were as representatives of this nation, ideal. Dr. Martin Luther King was still alive, so hope was alive. Rosa Parks had said, hell no you go to the back of the bus! There was outrage by white people at bombings of little girls in church. So there was hope. And lo and behold! Voila! A black man as POTUS with a beautiful and intelligent, caring wife. Queen Ann would only care about getting that servant, in the white house to move faster and to get her food and clothes prepared, just like 150 years ago. I could see her snapping the whip. Still have a loooong road ahead of us, yet there is hope. Ditto on the whole paradigm shift scenario, I hope so too. May true peace come in our lifetime.
the North, but my mom and I would drive to Florida every spring break (from the age of 9 through college...and in a car w/ no radio and no interstates through the Smokies) to visit her sister and husband who was a true Southern Racist. I remember people referring to us as 'Yankees.' I had never seen such out-and-out racism before. It scared me...how could people be so evil and cruel. It was truly an eye-opening, mind-changing experience.
I would never stay in a room alone with my racist uncle...he gave me the 'creeps.'
To this day, I've never stepped foot into AL or MS because I'm afraid I'd end up in jail from saying something which I thought was normal and they didn't. Do you think it would be educational for me to visit those states or would it just raise my blood pressure and I'd end up in jail??
Yep, a little Peace would do me wonders!
I haven't been there since 89. It had changed. less open racism ect and I'm told it is still not so bad. But 'yankees' are still viewed with suspicion in rural areas. I imagine visiting again but never living. good luck if you do go. our nation is so divided I would give it time to heal from this election cycle especially since our POTUS will be reelected.
First, the Mayans. They and their calendar predict no such thing as the end of the world. It measures time in periods, just as ours does. Or the Jewish or Islamic calendars do. Or the Chinese calendar. The Mayan calendar just has much larger periods it can count. This cockamamy nonsense about it predicting the end of the world stems from some idiot mid-century looking to cash in on bad archeology and crackpot theories. Oh, and someone FINALLY got around to asking actual Mayans what they thought about their ancestors' calendar predicting the end of the world. The Mayans were a bit perplexed how someone could think it predicted any such thing. Again, it's a calendar. One that can also measure really long periods. That's it. That's all it does.
Second, the 26,000 year thing. That's called precession. The Earth is doing it right now. Every second, of every day, of every year. Have you ever spun a top? Besides its obvious spin, see that little wobble it does about its spin axis? That's precession and that's what the Earth does, but much much slower. 26,000 years to complete one cycle. Star charts have to be updated every 50 years because of it. While Polaris is our current north star, in 13,000 years Vega will claim that title as the precession of Earth's rotational axis slowly swings around. There will be many "north stars" along the way between Polaris and Vega and back again, but those 2 are currently the brightest along that circular path. Remember too, stars are not stationary either so eventually both Polaris and Vega will cease ever being our north stars and other stars will take their place.
Third, you hadn't mentioned it but it's another misconception that gets mixed in with Mayans and precession that grinds my gears, the Earth's magnetosphere. It goes through somewhat less predictable cycles, though we can see past cycles by measuring magnetic footprints in the rocks out by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as the North American and European plates are pushed apart. The Earth is not going to lose its magnetosphere, the field simply weakens and becomes multipolar as a result. Instead of a magnetic north pole and a magnetic south pole, we get multiple magnetic poles. This lasts for a time until the magnetic field reorganizes itself, as it always has, and returns to a bipolar state though reversed from its previous state. Magnetic poles are NOT the same thing as rotational poles. Earth will NOT flip around, the crust will NOT shudder and break, Sol will NOT bake us alive. A weakened magnetosphere simply allows more high energy particles to reach the Earth's surface. You'll see an uptick in cancers, more electric grid failures during solar storms, and that's about it. Oh, and your magnetic compass will be utterly useless too as it won't point towards THE magnetic north pole, it'll just point at the nearest one. There will be several to choose from.
Of all the things that can kill us, Mayans and magnets and axes (oh my!) aren't among them. Rest easier.
matter the dissertation, I still hope 12/12/12 will cause a shakeup of arrogant human nature. I know this election will and if the 2nd amendment racist/nuts come out after our POTUS is reelected, my powder is dry.
your back. 
If mitttwit steals it, it will be eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die.
They'd love it if they were the lords amd we were the serfs and peasants - making no money and owning no land. 
If TEAGOP would be rightly called itself The Robber Baron party, then it would be more obvious what they're about.
