Reply #27: Can't wait 4 more years. We're all but dead now. Have to deal with them...

[arendt]

yes, they will be as infamous and extortionate as the Roman emperor Crassus, who set up the first fire company:

he arrived at a burning building and demanded half(or more) of the value of what he saved or he wouldn't fight the fire.

Soon, he graduated to threatening people with arson in order to sell subscriptions to his fire fighting service.

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In the four years you ask us to wait:

1. Global warming will be that much further beyond repair.
2. Either our national debt will be beyond repayment or the world will have cut us off at the economic knees.
3. We will have institutionalized torture, wiretapping, and corporate bribery as partisan political tools (exclusively for the GOP).
4. The Constitution will be ancient history.
5. We will live in a Christian nation.
6. Either our military will be broken or we will pay Blackwater to do everything, including shooting domestic dissenters.

Do I have to go on? How can you possibly consider sitting this election out? They are running the clock out on us; not vice versa. Waiting is an option we don't have.

arendt