Ron Paul is the only candidate that doesn't seem to have any space junk orbiting around his cranium.
Oh, he definitely does. It's just not quite as close to the issues that I believe will screw us over in the very near future.
We didn't lose it, we voluntarily surrendered it.
Allow me a quote...
There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.
Bush, Obama... all the same shit.
Our rights are being eroded left and right. They have been for decades but the rate has greatly increased since 9/11. The patriot act, gun control, SOPA, ACA, and more. The DHS (remember how they were going to only handle terrorists? guess what. it came to light over the last day or two that they coordinated the near simultaneous removal of the Occupy Wall Street protesters nationwide. Glad our new police state is already being used against LEGAL, DOCUMENTED CITIZENS?) is overstepping their bounds. So is the TSA (they're checking highways now, and commuter transportation.)
And there isn't a god damn thing we can really do about it. Sign online petitions? yeah, they don't even print those out to wipe their asses with. Mail letters to your representatives? Like they give a XXXX. They don't read that crap. Call them? Now you might get somewhere, but it sure won't be them, maybe someone will add another tally mark to a list if you are lucky.
Did you know that SOPA supporters donated over 13 MILLION dollars to just the top 20 senators/congressmen they backed? With over 3 million each going to the top two? How unbiased do you think they will be in their voting?
Vote the bastards out... all of them. If they are an incumbent without a good voting record on things like this, vote them out, republican or democrat, doesn't matter. If both major candidates running are shitbags with their own horrible voting records / campaign promises, vote for anyone else, Green, Libertarian, Mars Separatist, it doesn't matter.
If we do not vote out the problem it will get worse.