On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:58:17 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote:

On Sep 6, 10:52*am, JR wrote:
Our generation was born with the gift of the U.S. Constitution.
It benefits from the wealthiest, strongest economy the world has
ever seen. It has a free press and, thanks to the internet,
access to almost unlimited amounts of information. It has open
and free elections.

With all that, AND all the clear evidence of eight years of
criminally irresponsible mismanagement by Republicans, if enough
people still vote for McCain and Palin to elect them, then those
people (and the country, frankly) will get exactly what they deserve.

Yes, the lower and middle classes will continue to decline while
the rich get richer. Yes, the country's standing in the world
will continue to sink, and its security continue to erode. But
really, folks will have asked for it. They will practically have
begged for it, willingly, fervently..... more of the same,
cynically packaged as "hockey moms" & "reform" & "shaking up
Washington".

OK. *It will be tragic, sure, but in no way unjust.

- JR

Not unjust. The Tyranny of the masses.

Or as someone else once , people get the government they deserve.

--riverman
Yeah yeah yeah... so they say. But is it the government my two sons
deserve?
I deserve it because I didn't walk into the Swedish immigration
office in Stockholm and ask for asylum when I was there when I was 18.
But my kids are innocent (for kids) and don't deserve to be potential
neo-con cannon fodder.

Geo. C.