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« on: November 09, 2014, 02:38:10 am »
[No I'm not a black person defending a black President]
I don't watch mainstream news.
When Jindal says Republicans are the stupid party, you know there is an issue. You make some valid points above, my main point is that the numbers should speak for themselves.
Are we, objectively speaking, better off today as a nation than we were before President Obama? I think that yes we are. We are no longer in a recession, real GDP has gone up, consumer spending and confidence has gone up, less soldiers are dying in foreign lands (send in the drones), the deficient and discretionary spending has gone down since Bush etc. People were motivated to vote out of hate for the black man.
This recovery and improvement has happened despite GOP obstructionism.
Oh don't forget the hysteria over Ebola. That is just beyond stupid how people were so afraid of Ebola. The numbers show that you are more likely to die of the flu than ebola. Plus, Ebola could only be transmitted if you came in direct contact with an infected person's bodily fluids. You literally need to get their blood or genital fluids inside your body.
Like I said the people that most hate the President should be renamed the American Taliban. Only difference between the non moderate Christians in America and the Muslim extremist in the middle east is that Christians are tame in comparison. I guess they learned from other Christian's mistakes, from the crusades and inquisition.
Very similar beliefs between these groups but luckily not the same thirst for violence.
There is a reason that the United States is becoming less conservative and more progressive and it has to do with evolution. In order to survive and thrive in modern times you need to have higher and higher intelligence. You just won't cut it with a below average IQ and a greater and greater number of jobs are knowledge based rather than physical. There is a reason why highly educated individuals tend to lean left such as scientists, doctors, mathematicians, silicon valley white collar workers etc.
The reason is that there is an inverse relationship between how intelligent you are and religiosity. Jobs will only get more sophisticated as we become a more technologically advanced society and this will pressure humanity to become more intelligent otherwise you won't pass on your genes because you can't survive in this technologically advanced world.