Unfortunately, Boobus Americanus has been indoctrinated for so long, across so many generations, to accept partisan politics as a fact of life that no amount of reason can change his mind. Then again, arguing or trying to reason with Boobus is a violation of the Confucian principle that says, essentially, that the only person who tries to reason with Boobus is an even bigger Boobus.

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The bottom line is…..that book was written many years ago yet the government is far worse than it was when Heinlein wrote it. That, if nothing else, demonstrates that the book simply doesn’t have what it takes to effect any real change.

No, the parasites *do* *not* want you to give up hope. Your hope chains you to the political process, where you are rendered impotent. They know this *because they control the political process*. This is why the incessant propaganda to vote.

To quote a forgotten someone, “Hope is not a plan”. And, “If only everyone did….” is an exercise in opium smoking…. That’s all that I’ve seen from anyone who has suggested using the political process to try to reverse America’s plunge into the abyss. If you have something better than that, do tell. But otherwise, I can’t respect your view, not even if it comes from Heinlein.

(No, I don’t see the Tea Partiers and Occupiers as significant change. They are, for the most part, mere exaggerations of the evil moralities that got America here in the first place.)

I don’t believe that. I think if you read Mr. Heinlein’s book you might not either. That said, it would be a lot of work and take a long time. After all, it took a long time for things to get into their present revolting state.

Most people don’t want to be bothered. Some have too much on their plates already. Some wouldn’t be able to do the tedious part, and would get in the way of the exciting bits. But I think there is change in the works; The Republican “business as usual” operators are already feeling some cold breeze. I even see some sign of revolt in the Democrat ranks, although it is being obscured by the usual Liberal Left Street Theatre (Occupy Whatever, and so forth).

I see some of the political theatre, like the squawks about ‘for profit’ colleges and the ‘eating healthy’ efforts being paraded in the public schools as attempts to distract from fundamental failures of the Political Class, and I not that a heartening number of people are declining to be much distracted.

Maybe the change will just be one group of professional parasites ousting another, but I don’t give up hope.

After all, giving up hope is just what the parasites want me to do, and I decline to oblige them.

That’s an opinion, and one without basis. Canada, for example, has many fewer limits on government than the US, and much more involvement in the economy (health care, for example). And yet they largely escaped the financial meltdown that happened in the US. Why? Government limited the dangerous banking practices.

Facts are that government involvement underpins most sectors of the US economy.

It’s not possible to take back this government. In this nation of 300+ million people and some huge number of jurisdictions….how many jurisdictions are there where the government understands and respects individual rights? If that number is not zero, how much effort did it take to get there and how many people would it take to do the same in a majority of states…..and what are the chances that a constitutional convention–because that’s what it will take to fix this government–won’t be coopted by special interest groups who will turn the American Constitution into a gimme-gimme charter?

America has stopped being a nation of people who believe in individual rights and has become, instead, a nation of whiny children, all demanding their turn at the public teat. American politics cannot change so long as that is true. And America cannot solve any of its real problems so long as its politics remains based on deciding who will be stolen from and who will receive the stolen goods.

Isn’t it funny how those same countries are circling the drain just like we are? The problem isn’t the binary system, it’s the nature of government. That’s why the system of government is almost irrelevant; as long as there are strict limits on what the government can do, things will turn out all right. The partisan bickering is just a distraction from the total failures of government.

It is one of the numerous advantages of the parliamentary system, which the US should rewrite the constitution to adopt. After WWII when we went around the world setting up democracies in other countries – the US universally pushed parliamentary forms on them, instead of modelling them on the US constitution. Why? Because they work better, and everyone recognized it.

lol’ed for real.

Unfortunately, anytime that you express some kind of disapproval of Party A, you are very clearly indicating your support of Party B. Disapproval of Party A is the #1 item on Party B’s platform. It is the only thing that Party B’s supporters can actually agree on. It is the primary concern that will motivate them to get out and vote.

This is why the supporters of Party B don’t give a crap that their politicians don’t actually represent any of the values/policies that they claim. Only their opposition of Party A is relevant.

Please do not construe this as a sign that I approve of being punched in the face.

But that is one hell of a lot easier to write than it is to do. It would involve actually working at the thing, and I am just as guilty of laziness and procrastination on that point as any of the rest of y’all.

Is it just Americans who are so blinded by this “it has to be either one or the other” outlook? Is it just Americans who can’t see anything besides black and white with no shades in between?

It simply does not matter that one side is wrong on a facet of reality, it’s a political matter now.

Clear case of bias. You can’t argue with science. :D