Reply #101: My biggest concern is having laws pass that help people of this country live [View All]

[FrenchieCat]

more meaningful lives, and have less worries.

My job as a voter and a political activist is to help elect politicians that won't send soldiers to the wrong war, without the right equipment or an exit strategy.....or allow those soldiers to be mistreated when they get back from being deployed. My job is to try to get people in office who are reasoned, have common sense, are intelligent, and won't make the lives of Americans miserable and filled without hope, and who will pass laws that are helpful to as many of us as possibe.

Soldiers enlist every day for a variety of reasons, but in the end, far as I know,
a soldier's job is to defend this country and its citizens and insure that what happened
one September day doesn't happen again. They take an oath to do this, and they take their job seriously, and they, just like the police and the Firemen and other brave souls put their lives on the line as part of what they have chosen to do. I am thankful for them, and I am thankful to them, and I don't wish for soldiers dying in needless wars just because they are soldiers. But if I am to be honest, my first priority in life is not to protect them. That is the job of those who command them, the pentagon, etc. My duty in order to support them further is to pay my fair share of taxes that are due without crying about it.

As for the "escalation", I am doubtful that after 8 years, and based on who I helped get elected, that it will all end tomorrow.

Further, I am becoming convinced that there are some DUers who believe themselves to be better than other DUers. They think that they own the cornermarket on wisdom, because they believe themselves to be morally superior (and in fact they apparently believe that it is their job to sit in judgement), looking down at the unwashed masses (that would be me).

I started a thread where I asked a question, and obviously people had plenty to say.
You can call that petty if you wish, but by definition, a message board
ain't gonna be that intense anyway; not when you are sitting in the comfort of your home discussing various political issues with people you don't know.

If you are so concerned, perhaps you could run for office, and then you could do as you wish to make it all stop. I don't claim moral superiority, so I don't have to prove anything.

BTY, your post was a pure show of intellectual arrogance.