Message #13139

[uselesslegs]

There's quite a few things that disappoint me and quite a few things I'm happy about with Obama's Presidency.

He's proven much more centrist than I personally thought he'd be and *cautiously* progressive in other areas.  I know the far right has convinced themselves they SAVED the country by blocking many of the things he would like to see put into action...but I always wonder how much better off, we (the country as a whole) would have been...had they seen fit to cooperate even just 25 percent.  I think things would be a lot different...and for the better.  But I guess we'll never know.  What if's are to debatable.

I know one thing though...I know Romney, if he wins, will come into office in full on *Corporate* mode.  It will be an ultra conservatives wet dream.  The *land of opportunity* will turn into *the thunder dome.* Hell, we're already seeing the shift in the mindset of people.  Money has become almost the only standard we gauge success by now.  Everything else is arbitrary in it's shadow.  Doesn't matter how you positively affect your community..."yea yea, here's your award for your charitable work in town and with the people...now get out of the way so we can suck the cock of this millionaire who doesn't even know the people in the community or own a home here...THAT'S SUCCESS!"

That's not to cast dispersion's at all wealthy people.  Many do outstanding work to try to make tomorrow better...and that work towards a better tomorrow should be what we get excited about...but we don't...it's their bank account that gets people hard, with this newly acquired disconnect that ignores unethical, harmful practices that got them there.  Romney represents the latter in that mindset.  Initiative and dreaming are some of the primary components in ones journey towards a bigger bank account...but that doesn't insure a damn thing. People, however, have been convinced that that's good enough to be the next billionaire.  That's a dangerous exaggeration that turned capitalism into a top down economy and kept our eyes shut while everything was melting down.

Romney scares me.  Not because he malicious.  I think he's probably a nice guy...but he's unknowingly malicious.  Business, is always business with SOME thought to ripple effects, but not anything that will keep him awake at night.  That missing component is great for business, but scary as hell for the reality it creates in the process.  There is a middle ground, but to pursue that you relegate yourself to being only very very wealthy and not fantastically, unimaginably wealthy.  And as we all know...it's just unseemly to be only very very wealthy.