Obama and Romney are in an โexceedingly close raceโ according to the NY Times.
How can this be?
How can people vote for Romney when he repetedly has said he believed in different things that conflicted with each other, over and over.ย And heโs been caught doing it, and challenged โ then, continued doing it.
How can this be?
How can people who are women want to see other women go through what women had to do in the 1950โฒs if they accidentally got pregnant?
How can people not want the protections and compassion of the health care plan Obama created, which is already helping so many people in the U.S. even before it fully kicks in?
How can a country that really is tired of war, choose a president who wants to build up our military arsenal again (plowshares to swords?) and who jumps before looking into international muddy waters?
How can people believe the filth and lies that the Romney campaign tells in its advertising and at its rallies?
How can people who need jobs desperately vote for a man who crushed companies and outsourced jobs?
How can anyone trust a man who wonโt be transparent about his own investments, income taxes, contributors โ and only reveals what he must by law?ย And โ this is before he might become our leader.ย What would he do if he ever got into the position of power that is the presidency?
โThe economy continues to be the overwhelming issue on the minds of voters, with about three-quarters selecting the economy as either their first or second most important concern. Another 23 percent named the budget deficit as one of their top two issues. Most voters consider Mr. Romney the better candidate to deal with both of those challenges.โ
The phenomenon is intriguing. People who have their own self-interest will suspend their belief in what they want and need to believe Romney will give it to them. Itโs like people who continue to smoke but deny itโs bad for them.
When Nixon was disgraced, many Americans still admired him because to them he represented the American Dream. Romney, with homes, cars, offshore accounts, money invested in tax-free places, basks in his wealth. His wife brags that he built it. Yet he ignores the huge advantages he was born into, and assumes everyone can just call uncle when in deep trouble. No doubt, heโs wealthy. Americans aspire, itโs defining. Could it be that?
W T F.
How to explain to non-Americans watching our election, the incredible sheeplike nature of so many Americans, who appear simply not to think.
WTF.
Carole