How important is this election?

[kentuck]

Every election, we hear how it is the most important election of our lifetime or our generation. Is this election just like every other election?

Or is this the election where the 1% close the deal? Are Social Security and Medicare and the social safety net really under threat if the 1% win this election? Will times get much tougher for a lot of people if Romney and the Republicans take control of everything?

Or is this just the normal hand-wringing that comes with every election? The change will be imperceptible? This election is really not that different from any other election in our lifetime?

[Motown_Johnny]

1. IMO this is the most important so far

but the next one might be the same, and the one after that too.


Until the demographics finally swing the electoral collage in our favor (20 years?) the (R)s will be doing everything they can to hold power. The photo ID laws are just the tip of the iceberg. Citizens United is in the same category.

We need to not lose any more ground to them in the next several cycles.

The country did great when (D)s held The House for 40 years straight. We need to get back to that level of power before we can truly get away from these Reagan policies that are destroying not only our nation but the entire world.


This is the most important so far but getting a (D) in to replace W was also the most important until that time. Getting W out before his second term was the most important to that point. Keeping W out and getting Gore in was the most important in history until 2000. The Supreme Court is among the reasons each of these elections was so monumental.


The pattern is clear.

[Dalai_1]

2. I really like your response

I truly believe if Romney wins this election...in four more years we will have NO middle class left.I especially agree about the
Supreme Court nominations in the future...

[wandy]

3. Depends on weather or not you want to live in a third world country...........

If the thoughts of living in a country where the ruling class own everything and barefooted, uneducated children fetch water in rusty gas cans from a polluted river bothers you, then I would say this is a very important election.

Did I mention how important it is to support Obama?

[Jack Sprat]

4. In retrospect

2000 was the most important election until that date, but people either did not realize it at the time or were not paying attention. Now, by benefit from hindsight, we know how important it was.

So, this election could very well be as important or more important than that one. We only know for sure in the aftermath. But I don't like the general attitude among our voters this cycle and it reminds me of 2000, in that we don't have an urgency to support our candidate.

[kentuck]

5. I agree that the urgency doesn't seem to be there...

2008 was a very important election, also.

[Jack Sprat]

6. And the urgency should be there.

We have a disappointing lack of commitment that the Repubs don't have. The teabag terrorists thought very little of Rmoney until it dawned on them that he was indeed the Repub nominee. Now, they are totally committed to him. His campaign if being fueled with unlimited funding from all spectrums of the Redstate network.

I can't help but have noticed that many of our DUers are declining to donate this election cycle and are only grudgingly committed to voting. I can understand it if they are financially unable. Totally understandable. But at this time in history, money rules politics like never before. There is less than 4 months before election day and the conventions will be giving their temporary bounce to one or both candidates. We need to get urgent, to get realistic about this thing, and to understand the great stakes in play.

Rmoney is devoted to lowering tax rates while cutting the debt. That means the money is coming from the most vulnerable to be distributed among the most affluent. That coupled with bellicose statements towards the Mideast almost makes me think he's about as close to a genuine anti-Christ as there has ever been.

[dtom67]

7. Agree with both...

This is the most important election because the wealthy have decided that the time for them to directly control the Government is now.

The fact that most GOP'ers don't even pretend to represent their constituents anymore makes it harder to believe that they could get re-elected in an uncorrupted system.

The fact that the GOP has openly assaulted Labor Unions while Dems sit back and watch....


The fact that we openly talk about money's influence on elections and do not consider it corruption...


The fact that a republican can run on economics.?.?.?.?


It seems that the Republicans are " all in " in this election and it scares the hell outta me...


I truly believe that my standard of living and that of my friends and family will be drastically cut with a Romney win.


Yeah.


This is the Big One.

[HopeHoops]

8. Sort of the difference between getting an erection and having your tallywhacker cut off.

[demwing]

9. If anyone doesn't see the importance of this election

from an economic, or civil rights point of view, please help them see it from an environmental perspective.

We're seeing climate change happen in real time, and there's still one party that pretends that the whole issue is a socialist con.

Forget economic slavery, the fuckers are going to kill us through sheer inactive stupidity.

[Little Star]

10. It is very important. We can't afford a job out-source lover and corporate owned...

president. Things are bad enough, thanks to GWB's 2 friggin terms!