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I do not intend to vote in this election cycle.
As far as I am concerned no current candidate has anything resembling a sensible position on either economics or the environment. As for economics, it appears there is no practical approach to managing our nation's wealth within a global framework. And as for environmental concerns, it appears to me that Americans have an irrational fascination with not using available environmental resources. We actsupremely deluded about the importance of environmental "preservation" and "protection" to degrees that are harmful to our economic requirements. We seem to have some emotional need to consider the state of the "environment" and other species' "needs" far more important than our own species' economic requirements. I suppose it has to do with self-hatred.
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This sounds like an excessively verbose way of saying "I don't care". You've posed more questions than you answered.
I think Obama addresses all your concerns (as well as many others). Were I to humor your position that there isn't a 'qualified' politician on your scale, you'd have to elaborate:
Why do you think there is not a "practical approach to managing our nation's wealth within a global framework"?
What available environmental resources are there?
Why do you think Americans have an aversion to using them?
Why is it irrational to have such an aversion?
We act supremely deluded about the importance of environmental "preservation" and "protection" to degrees that are harmful to our economic requirements.
What does this even mean? What are our "economic requirements"? Why do you think people act "deluded" in respect to environmental preservation and protection?
We seem to have some emotional need to consider the state of the "environment" and other species' "needs" far more important than our own species' economic requirements. I suppose it has to do with self-hatred.
What does this mean? Are you implying that human economy is more important than the needs of other species on Earth?
And finally,
is this really why you can't find a candidate you like? It really seems to be like a pretty esoteric set of concerns, rationalized as a reason to not pick between the available choices.
For the OP, and as I've addressed in threads of my own, I will absolutely be voting for Barack Obama. He's the second coming of Jesus.