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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Putting things to votes is a sham democracy?
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It is when you don't like the people voted into office. When you like the elected officials then it's not a sham. It's really no different then the hypocrisy of people who threw a fit when Bush was in office and people were making signs portraying him as stupid, a monkey, Hitler etc... People such as Rush and Hannity repeatedly claimed it was fine to disagree with the POTUS but it is disrespectful of the office and un-American to call the man names since he was in fact the POTUS. And "OMG! Yes! Especially during times of wars. The mans Commander and Chief you know. Yes, yes I know, how disrespectful. Yes, really it's disrespectful to the troops themselves. Oh, yes, yes I agree completely." Oh how times have changed. Now that they don't like the POTUS it's not only OK it's encouraged. Which is why Rush's listeners get to hear stuff like "Barack the Magic Negro" and think it's funny.
When Bush was in office the "patriot act" passed without much dissent at all. We need to be able to obtain info on people in these troubled times! In walks Obama and the same folks who were all for the PA now are calling on people not to answer questions on the national census because giving the government info is dangerous.
And people wonder why little to nothing beneficial comes out of our political process.