The thing about this election

[trempnvt]

The thing about this election is that it's so close and people are so scared. I know some people who are afraid that if Bush wins, by 2008 America will have its own version of a KGB and people who criticize the government in any way will disappear from their houses and never be heard from again. And I know people who are that if Kerry wins,

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[adidi]

wheee! thank you, i loved this. you r0XX0red my niblets.

The best of both Evils - such an optimist! :)

[conundrum1]

Haha - prohibition: the time when americans smuggled alcohol in from Canada. Tzippy, if that ever happens again - I'll get you some illegal booze from Canada and we can barter - I'd like some illegal pepper spray plz O:)

I'm not so into politics...but when my comic section in the newspaper gets taken over by voting campaigns, then it starts to get personal. :)

[ninabrujaha]

Thank you for being more articulate than I am.
So, uh.
Ditto?

[kooshballrivky]

And if Kerry is elected, then yes, he may ask things of Israel that aren't fair. But he's not going to force anyone to do anything--he recognizes that Israel is an independent country. (And if you ask me, people who are worried about land being given away should focus more on the Israeli elections as opposed to the American ones.) He's not going to give Hamas nuclear weapons. And he's also not going to put Saddam Hussein back into power.

It's not about that, it's about the support Kerry gives to UN nations, specifically France, Germany, and Russia, which all have large Arab voting blocs that they are influenced by. We have no idea, yet, of those consequences.

And I guess we never will. :-) I'm happy, I guess. Neither is great, but Bush is definitely the greater of two evils/idiots.

[mirideee]

Tzippy.. what are the democrats - and what are republicans?

[mirideee]

briefly!

[trempnvt]

Was it brief enough?

[trempnvt]

I don't know how parties work in England, but you know how in Israel, there are thousands of parties, so the people are actually represented and the party with the plurality, be it Labor or Likud, has to make a coalition? Yeah, in America it's not like that. Everything is either Democrat or Republican.

What people generally believe is that Democrats are left-wing and Republicans are right. Meaning, Democrats believe in small government when it comes to civil liberties and big government when it comes to budget spending (as in, closer to socialism) and Republicans believe in large governemtn when it comes to civil liberties and small government when it comes to budget spending (as in, closer to laissez-faire capitalism).