Kacen wrote:

I want Kucinich now but hes...ugh what is wrong how can anyone not see hes just awesome?

He's kinda super liberal. I kinda like him, but America is for the most part unsuprisingly primarily moderate.

Also, at 5' 6", hes a leprecaun. Constrast with his six foot wife, and you've got a napoleon complex that you definitely don't want in the white house.

I waffle between liberalism and libertarianism. Libertarianism is when I begin to suffer under the delusion that the wealthy, given the opportunity, would follow under the example set by Andrew Carnegie and invest their wealth in their fellow countrymen.

Unfortunately, our wealthy act exactly how we expect them to, spending time indulging in trifles and building personal monarchies that would make the very classist British blush.

Syd, I think your half correct. People want to see people worse off than them. But more importantly, they want to be at the top. That is, they want to see everyone poorer than them. They want to be indulgent rich. Rappers in music video, Paris Hilton, people constantly flashed across the media super-rich.

Problem is that itll never happen. Weaths become the primary method of making wealth. Its concentrating right at the top, and the average person has no chance of ever seeing it. Before long, America will look like Mexico, with its sprawling estates surrounded by iron fences, armed guards, and beyond that, the squalor you normally think of when you think Mexico.