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OK, serious discussion. All the major problems facing our country; debt, border crisis, IRS, Benghazi, half of the country on welfare, etc. are the direct result of the incompetency of the socialist fool taking up space in the white house. And most people agree with me, zerO's approval rating is in the 30's.

No, that's not a serious discussion of any of these issues, which are not even the most important issues we face. It's the same childish nonsense you've been spouting every day for years. You ignored all the biggest issues, which date back since long before President Obama was elected.

Take just the first issue below. I say we need a major national push for research and development into non-carbon energy sources. We should be more dedicated to that as a nation, and invest in it more deeply, than we did with the space program in the 1960s. Then we will see new technologies emerge, which private companies can run with. It will also lessen the amount of carbon we put into the atmosphere. Good idea, don't you think?

1. Climate change, which threatens human devastation on a scale never seen before. The oil companies do not want us to stop using oil and gas, for obvious reasons. The profit motive is working against the interests of the people, and against the interests of basic morality and ethics.

2. Freeing ourselves from our addiction to carbon-based fossil fuels. See #1.

3. Income inequality. The middle class in the United States is being destroyed. The super-rich don't care, in fact they like it this way. No one on any commercial network is talking about what to do about it. Doing so would not serve their interests.

4. What to do about the global economy. The entire world has been transformed by it. Yet our so-called news outlets and our so-called political leaders are talking as though we are still back in the 1950s. If we keep pretending that we can bring jobs back to the United States through policies that worked 50 years ago, or worse 200 years ago, we will never address our needs today.

5. Our educational system. We have become an entertainment culture. We want instant gratification. The corporate model feeds self-indulgence. And don't you dare tell people that we all need to sacrifice, or that we face real problems, because they'll turn you off, and your advertisers won't be happy about that.

6. Our health care system. We still don't have a real national system, despite the Affordable Care Act. As a result, other nations deliver health care to their people more effectively and at less cost than we do.

7. The military-industrial complex. Every time there's trouble anywhere in the world, there's a call for another war. President Eisenhower warned us about this. It's not hard to understand what is going on.

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Obama's responses to all the disasters happening around him; Russian shoot-down of a commercial jetliner, IRS, VA, Benghazi, border crisis, have all been the same,

get out of Washington and go on a fund raising junket. Forget WW2, this dickhead is the worst president ever.

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Obama's responses to all the disasters happening around him; Russian shoot-down of a commercial jetliner, IRS, VA, Benghazi, border crisis, have all been the same,

get out of Washington and go on a fund raising junket. Forget WW2, this dickhead is the worst president ever.

That's nonsense. It's absolutely not true. He has proposed many new laws. The Republicans in Congress have refused to consider them.

Most of the "issues" you name make a lot of press but they won't make much difference to us or our country in the years ahead. They just feed prejudices people who don't know how to distinguish between what's important and what isn't. The President's job isn't to grandstand on these issues or go visit the scene. (If you have half a brain, you realize that visiting the scene is just for show.) His job is to address the underlying issues long-term. He is in office to do a job, not to entertain you.

Seven of our the most important issues facing our country and the world have been raised on this topic. We have yet to see a right winger, or any Republican for that matter, address any of them. What should we do about these issues? This is not an idle question. The answers we give, through our actions or inactions, will determine our future. That is not true about any of the side-show "issues" you just listed.

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Obama's responses to all the disasters happening around him; Russian shoot-down of a commercial jetliner, IRS, VA, Benghazi, border crisis, have all been the same,

get out of Washington and go on a fund raising junket. Forget WW2, this dickhead is the worst president ever.

When you identify those as the issues facing our country, you're telling us that you don't understand the first thing about our real problems. You're just repeating whatever Fox Noise tells you to think. Problem is, you don't think, because if you did, you would realize that those are not the real issues.

And that's not even mentioning the ridiculous spin you're putting on it.

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Stupid,

The people's opinion didn't matter at all to you when we elected Obama, twice. The people are frustrated, so all elected officials are getting low marks. Obama is about four times more popular than the Republican-controlled Congress. And if he was up for election against a McCain or a Romney, he'd still win.

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Illegal aliens flooding across our border, bringing diseases with them being bused around the country is not a real issue? I have to stop answering these Kool-Aid

swigging zombies, it's like trying to debate a 5 year old.

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Illegal aliens flooding across our border, bringing diseases with them being bused around the country is not a real issue? I have to stop answering these Kool-Aid

swigging zombies, it's like trying to debate a 5 year old.

Oh, now it's about disease. It's not an issue on the level of importance of the others. Nowhere close. Climate change is going to wreak havoc on the entire world if we don't do something about it.

Now, what about the seven issues you keep refusing even to acknowledge?

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It has been said before but bears repeating. 2dim and tens of millions of other Americans live in a right-wing fantasy world, spun by the commercial networks (which are all corporate-owned) and fed by billions of dollars in special interest money. All you need to read, to know what they're talking about, are 2dim's posts on KOTW. It's a daily diet of side points, irrelevancies, half-truths and outright lies. The intent is to distract the people from the real issues that affect our lives and our future. Why would they do that? Follow the money and remember that corporations today live by short- and mid-term profit margins. That is what drives them, and there is a vast array of power making sure that their world view dominates our political systems.

There is no other explanation for the major issues being ignored. These include:

1. Climate change, which threatens human devastation on a scale never seen before. The oil companies do not want us to stop using oil and gas, for obvious reasons. The profit motive is working against the interests of the people, and against the interests of basic morality and ethics.

2. Freeing ourselves from our addiction to carbon-based fossil fuels. See #1.

3. Income inequality. The middle class in the United States is being destroyed. The super-rich don't care, in fact they like it this way. No one on any commercial network is talking about what to do about it. Doing so would not serve their interests.

4. What to do about the global economy. The entire world has been transformed by it. Yet our so-called news outlets and our so-called political leaders are talking as though we are still back in the 1950s. If we keep pretending that we can bring jobs back to the United States through policies that worked 50 years ago, or worse 200 years ago, we will never address our needs today.

5. Our educational system. We have become an entertainment culture. We want instant gratification. The corporate model feeds self-indulgence. And don't you dare tell people that we all need to sacrifice, or that we face real problems, because they'll turn you off, and your advertisers won't be happy about that.

6. Our health care system. We still don't have a real national system, despite the Affordable Care Act. As a result, other nations deliver health care to their people more effectively and at less cost than we do.

7. The military-industrial complex. Every time there's trouble anywhere in the world, there's a call for another war. President Eisenhower warned us about this. It's not hard to understand what is going on.

When do you see any serious and sustained discussion on any of these issues? The closest you'll get to it is on PBS and NPR, which are not corporate-owned. But those shows aren't entertaining, so most people don't watch them.

Every civilization has declined when its people became too comfortable. They imagined that prosperity was their birthright, and they didn't have to work or sacrifice for it. As a civilization and a nation, we are digging our own grave. We know what we need to do, if we are honest about it. We just don't want to do it. 2dim is just an extreme example of ignoring the reality that's right in front of our noses, every day.

Too bad the right wing blowhards who frequent this page never say anything, and never discuss the real issues that will shape our future.

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