Reply #23: I've spent 12 years abroad in Asia. [View All]

[kristopher]

And I've seen the country I love raped by corrupt politicians that used fear and hatred to scare people into voting against their self interests in order ro plunder the treasury without fear; a divide and conquer strategy that causes the type of factionalization that characterizes third world poverty. We aren't there yet but every year for the past 28 years we have seen an entity of huge inertia - our culture - shake itself more steadily into a new direction that is leading us inexorably to third world status. A place where there is a worldwide aristocracy, a technical class, and a peasant class.
The middle class isn't a part of the natural order - it is the fruit that is fought for in the democratic process.

B.O. knows that and the goals he's stated - open government goals I haven't heard since Carter, alternative energy focus ala Carter, and foreign policy insight that I think (judging by his evaluations of the Middle east situation) is dead on.

I also see where we, you and I, differ-
I measnure what we are against what we believe, and ask how we can be better.

You look at what we are and then find someone worse off than yourself to make you feel good.

That's too bad.