News Why Did Americans Re-Elect Bush?

[wasteofo2]

I don't know about lots of Bush voters not being stupid.

My science teacher said he voted Bush because he felt like he could "Sit down and have a beer with him". He elaborated that if he had a beer with Kerry, he felt that Kerry would be speaking down to him, wheras he feels Bush is at or below his level of thinking, so he relates to him better.

Little did he know, Bush has stopped drinking since his wife almost left him because he drank so much...

 

[franznietzsche]

Then why do countries like Canda, sweden and Norway with socialized medicine beta the US on ALL core helath indicators?

Because it is easier to get there, not because quality is higher. That means that the average care received is higher, yes. But, we have Mayo, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, and Bethesda, the best hospitals in the world. The socialist systems do have a higher averageof care. But they do not offer the best care.

 

[franznietzsche]

I keep hearing that people like myself are wrong for criticizing individuals who voted for Bush. I have criticized with logic and valid beliefs, and others like me have as well. I didn't see any of my points countered in any way by my critics.

A system of government is supposed to be the best for the majority of people. How many people are unhealthy, uneducated, poor, ect? - quite a few are. The majority of people don't know how to choose what is best for them. That is where the U.S democracy is failing. Propoganda has infested U.S politics making the average person unable to decifer the correct candidate to vote for in any election.

How can you claim my post to be ignorant logically? All points should be justified otherwise they are just impassioned rhetoric. I enjoy the twisting of English diction and the use of glittering generalities too; however, it does make the debate futile after awhile.

1)And they call me pretentious. As if you know what is in the best interests of all the people who voted for Bush. not everyone has the same priorities as you.

2) You are contradicting the basics of democracy. refer to mencken quote.

3) You talk about people being uneducated and unable to decide what is best for themselves, but then say "ignorant logically"? Who is the uneducated one? Furthermore, the basis of democracy is they get what they want, not what is best for them.

4) Again, and they call me pretentious. I don't pretend to know what is best for everyone. I don't claim people are too stupid to decide what they want.

 

[Political Prodigy]

Hardly, OK if you comapre to a country like China yes, but if you comapre to somewhere like Western Europe you see that the US has less oppurtunites open to the poor in general due to the fact that there are more obstacles in obtianing a decetn eductaion in the US if you are poor.

Actually, I admit I was thinking of China. However, what I mean is that the poor in America can rise in social class where as in communism the government decides what you are what you own and what your salary is. It's totalitarian.

For example, say one of my classes in college is a communist country. Let's also say I have a 4.0 GPA. If one day my professor comes in and says we will all receive a 3.0 GPA for the rest of the year, do you think me and many of the others in my class (with the exception of those with less thana 3.0) will work as hard? What would the point be in working hard if we can't get a better grade anyway? That is why communism so often fails. No motivation for work, no room for improvement, no freedom . In America, we have that.

 

[Evo]

I'm closing this thread because too many insults have been made and we can't seem to get past it.