Things I Thought I’d Never Live to See

I turned 60 this year, and I never thought I'd live to see...

The Supreme Court deciding who is President

A Congress and President do away with habeas corpus

US citizens held without trial for years

Americans using, and supporting, torture

The U.S. Government financing bank fraud

Removal of New Deal protections on banking

The American Government murdering U.S. citizens

An American President lying us into a war of aggression

One of America’s two parties completely losing its mind

Corporations running the government

A disgraced, twice divorced man running for President

American politicians deliberately sending American jobs overseas

People desiring Biblical law for America getting any political power at all

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9 replies	Author	Time	Post
Things I Thought I’d Never Live to See (Original post)	CanonRay	Jan 2012	OP
A residence of open proud bigotry	abelenkpe	Jan 2012	#1
Things I never thought I'd see...	MineralMan	Jan 2012	#2
thank you	barbtries	Jan 2012	#3
Sadly, the world is never ideal. We can choose	MineralMan	Jan 2012	#4
Really?	BeFree	Jan 2012	#6
And we continue to live with no one jailed or even prosecuted for all the crimes listed	just1voice	Jan 2012	#5
Indeed	BeFree	Jan 2012	#7
K & R. Interesting for sure. How has this all happened?	lonestarnot	Jan 2012	#8
The USA is diseased and needs major surgery.	Quantess	Jan 2012	#9

Response to CanonRay (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 09:32 AM

abelenkpe (9,933 posts)

1. A residence of open proud bigotry

And calls to reverse civil rights?

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Mon Jan 30, 2012, 09:36 AM

MineralMan (144,938 posts)

2. Things I never thought I'd see...

I'm 66.

A black man occupying the White House.
Gays and Lesbians serving openly in the military.
Even the beginnings of a national health care plan.
The end of our military presence in Iraq.
The Republicans reduced to running complete morons as candidates for President.
A successful rescue of the US automotive industry.

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Response to MineralMan (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 10:27 AM

barbtries (27,050 posts)

3. thank you

for finding the silver lining. the glass really is half full after all!

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Response to barbtries (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 10:50 AM

MineralMan (144,938 posts)

4. Sadly, the world is never ideal. We can choose

to look at both the negative and the positive together, or we can choose to look at them individually. For me, measuring the balance seems to be the best approach. Things are always changing.

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Response to MineralMan (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 11:21 PM

BeFree (23,843 posts)