Geez - as a regular Bloomberg media viewer, I’m finding it hard to find on-air financial news / chatter. It’s become “election, election, election” all day long. Today’s headline (regurgitated again and again): “50% of swing state voters (both parties) fear violence around the time of the election.” Damn. The good news is that Bloomberg’s website to which I subscribe continues to provide an abundance of financial news and analysis.
@Old_Joe - That toboggan ride is a great analogy. However, I’m not sure the sled can stay on the slope that long. Seems to be careening out of control already …
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I can’t drink like I did in the younger years or I’d Absolutely tune everything out!
IF I DO vote, it will be for C. West or J. Stein. The absurd Electoral College facilitates the longstanding, broken, misguided 2-Party system. I can't do "woke," and I can't vote, on the other hand, for candidates from a Party which decades ago sold its very soul.
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Solzhenitsyn:
"We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. We have lost our strength, our pride, our passion. We do not even fear a common nuclear death, do not fear a third world war (perhaps we’ll hide away in some crevice), but fear only to take a civic stance! We hope only not to stray from the herd, not to set out on our own, and risk suddenly having to make do without the white bread, the hot water heater, a Moscow residency permit."
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And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. Gen. 25:29-34.
There, I got THAT off my chest...
I realize that I'm over simplifying or am I?
I'll let Archbishop Chacour tell it:
@Mark - Well, I'm not at all certain about "the populations", but for sure there are a significant number of people in power on both sides who seem to feel that way.