Romney???
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^ Yup, the dream of upward mobility is now just a dream; the ever-upward drain of wealth and value is now do efficient and quick that you can't follow it - the real cost of labor has fallen through the floor, wages are falling and lower than they were, in real terms, since the 70s, yet the corporations engulfing of small business and their influence on legislation has reduced the margins on every industry in which one could reasonably expect to grow. Industries like farming, retail, small-scale industry and manufacturing. Bedrock industries that populated town squares and made enough - if run properly - to employ several people and send kids to college, and return value to local communities. Now that's gone. There's Walmart up the road, just off the highway, where the people that would have worked in these now derelict stores scrape by on pittance wages, subsidized by the govt. They pay little to no taxes and their wages are syphoned off into their housing costs, which means the money goes to pay the interest on the mortgages on those properties. They don't spend anything in their local communities anymore - there isn't anything left after housing, food and gas. Their food and gas money goes straight to massive corporations whose stoney-eyed reptilian influence grows ever more insidious and powerful. There's no safety net - the fear of which keeps wages and union-organising down, everything is set up in a race to the bottom. Lowest wages, highest profits - millions of people working for less real value - a higher and higher proportion of the value they generate is taken for corporate profits, concentrated in the hands of an anonymous and unaccountable few.
The American dream is still out there, because America is a land of dreams and dreamers - currently that dream is to return to a time when hard work was an opportunity to advance and build value, in homes, businesses and communities - but the solution is not going to be a political one, and certainly not one that can be achieved by voting in a man whose whole life has been the absolute epitome of acting against this dream. An executor of the faceless corporate profit-monster that sees people die of curable illnesses and strips families of generations of their properties and hopes, runs down the opportunities for education and advancement and doles out increasing advantage to the greedy asset-strippers. Romney is a soulless, heartless cunt and he knows it. Drive around this country - it's a beautiful place, full of open-hearted, trusting, happy people who've been handed a shit sandwich over the last few years. A small number of assholes have run off with an enormous amount of money that the banks are slowly clawing back off everyone else and no one seems to know what to do about it. Along comes this silver-haired cock-face with his awkward smile and lumbering shoulders that have never seen a day's work - and his fucking magic underwear - and promises to take away the real problems - medicare and planned parenthood. What a fucking cunt.
Him, and people like him are absolutely the problem, they've set this place back 20 years, if anyone possibly considers voting for him, they fucking deserve everything they fucking get. What a cunt.
What. A. Cunt.