[LuvFreeRepublic]

All thinking and intelligent people should leave the GOP.

I agree. The GOP has been screwing us over for a long time and our country will continue its decline with Romney or Obama as president. It is just a matter of how fast it crashes. It is also obvious that the general public still does not understand how big a mess our country is in. If they did, they all would be behind the candidate who has the best chance of making some big changes, and we all would have one target right now, Obama.

[RedMonqey]

It is also obvious that the general public still does not understand how big a mess our country is in.

Considering that most citizens never took a basic civics class in high school and couldn't name the three branches of the federal government, of course we as a self governing nation are in deep doo doo.

I can't number the times I've overheard people in public who think:

1) To cure the national debt the gov't just has to print more money.
2)The Rich have all the money taken from the poor
Not invested in factories, stores real estate but kept it hidden away in a big pile (presumably they swim in it like in an old Richie Rich cartoon)
3) Global warming is real/fake that GOP/Bush created/ignore to benefit his rich Texas buddies.

And my favorite:

These voters believe...

4)The president literally has dictator-like powers(hence everything bad was Bush's fault and if only he cared about them he could have helped "the Poor" but instead only enriched his rich Texas buddies.

But now that Obama is president(and had a super majority in congress) those damned republicans still have the power and ruined Obama's plan to help everyone.

The Founding Fathers were no fools and had a good reason when they only allowed persons who were literate and had property to have the vote.

Now the country has gone hog wild with the nation's credit card and the bill has been long overdue...