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Barack Obama Retains US Presidency
Fox News, NBC, and CNN have called the U.S. election for incumbent Barack Obama. Of the so-called 'battleground states,' Obama carried Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire, which, along with all of the solidly Democrat-leaning states, was enough to push him beyond the 270 required for victory. You can check this chart to see the full list of states that have currently been called, and by which news networks. The NY Times has an excellent interactive map showing all election results updated in real time, as does CNN. It's currently projected that the Republicans will retain control of the House of Representatives, and the Democrats will retain control of the Senate.
Putting weapons of mass destruction in the hands of anyone who thinks they get their orders from a 'invisible friend in the sky' is a bad idea, no matter who that person is. The closer they consider themselves to their invisible friend, the more dangerous they are. Someone who bases a decision on logic and reason is a far safer choice.
And I'm sure they remember the 50%, adjusted for inflation, that the US debt has increased under Obama to this point. Well, you'll have four more years to put two and two together.
...the following things to happen within the next 12-18 months
- $8-10 per gallon gasoline combined with shortages
- electric bills to nearly double
- natural gas and heating oil bills to nearly double
- widespread shortages of critical medicine drugs commonly used in hospitals and emergency clinics (already happening now)
- widespread early retiring of doctors and nurses creatng sudden shortages of medical professionals (already happening now)
- what little bank commercial credit is available now to dry up completely
- doubling of the number of people on food stamps
- prices of durable manufactured goods doubling followed by the factories closing due to nobody buying these durable goods
- signs of the start of double-digit inflation
- sudden rise of unemployment as the pissed-off conservatives close down their businesses and "go Galt"
- lots of other serious problems caused by a population even far more deeply divided than ever before
- the government doing even less to help the situation, but rather doing more to hurt it
So which is it? Did you take drugs you shouldn't have, or did you not take drugs you should have?
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
Obama is a religious extremist. His policies come straight from the Rev Wright school of Liberation Theology and "social justice". And indeed, "America's chickens have come home to roost".
My only question is, who is Obama gonna blame for the next four years? Romney?
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Socialism, Fascism, Nazism all of these are subsets of the same ideology: collectivism, and collectivism resides on the idea of central planning, anti-humanism and anti-capitalism.
For example as the silly idea of international socialism lost its support in pre WWI Germany, the ultra right and ultra left Socialists combined their efforts and took hold of the ideas based on the common notion of national dictatorial socialism.
Socialism requires dictatorial power to be implemented, the French socialists knew it, the Russian socialists knew it. International socialism doesn't work at all within any particular country, because fundamentally socialism "for others" is not what people are looking for. Some worker in UK doesn't want to subsidize some farmer in India. That's why you see all of the forms of: National Democratic Parties across the West. Note the word National. As in protectionist and isolationist, and this is a necessity for a socialist or a fascist or a nazi, because collectivists are all anti-competitive capitalism, they are anti-individualism and thus they must not allow competition in the market, which searches for efficiencies.
Collectivism is based on the ideology if equality of outcomes and to achieve this, collectivist governments must abolish the Rule of Law that treats people equally without looking at their specific circumstances.
To implement 'equal outcomes' different people must be treated differently, otherwise outcomes will not be equal. The top earners have more of their earnings confiscated by that system than the bottom earners, the businesses are regulated to eliminate competition among workers, who simply sell their labour and time. All of the laws are aimed not at equality of opportunity but at equality of outcomes, and this is promoted by the tyranny of the mob - democracy.
Democracy is the key that opens the Pandora Box, because democracy allows the mob, the lowest common denominator to dominate the elections, voting for the politicians who promise more and more discriminatory treatment of individuals, to steal from some to subsidize the rest.
When any form of collectivism and democracy are mixed together, the only question becomes: what will they use as the final instrument to implement the ideology of equal outcomes? And this is where forms of nationalistic socialism (like fascism and nazism) win over any type of liberal international form of socialism (which cannot work for the reasons mentioned earlier).
That's why you see what you see in America, a mix of liberal socialism (among the ideologues) and fascism (among the elite, because that's the most effective way to implement the collectivist goals).
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