[quote=deadzone]I find I am getting more liberal as I get older. Probably due to my disgust at the big money wall st. types that Romney represents.
I mean their insistence on lowering taxes for wealthy? How can the everyday man (with a brain) get behind that? But frankly I dislike both candidates and both parties, I just dislike the Republican party a lot more.[/quote]
Ditto. As a young person toiling away at menial jobs, I was very conservative and hated “welfare” for people who didn’t work, etc. One day, when I was working my a$$ off at a fast food joint, a girl I knew from high school (who had a kid out of wedlock and was a crack addict) came in an laughed at me and said: “Isn’t it funny that I make more from welfare than you do working here?” That comment was never forgotten, and I largely based my opinions on that one interaction.
I was such a fool…no different from all the workers today who believe nothing bad will ever happen to them, and who consistently vote against their own interests because they erroneously think they are, or will be, somehow, a part of the “1%.”
As I’ve seen more of life, it’s become far too apparent that our economy and society are run by a relative handful of people/entities whose sole goal is to funnel all of the “excess value” created by workers into their own accounts so that they can control a greater and greater share of the world’s resources. The entire capitalist system (as it’s set up) is nothing more than a corrupt Ponzi scheme.
