Bitches, have you voted?

[midlifeaspie]

You are welcome Ricky.  Doesn't it feel good to thank your elders for taking care of the country while you are otherwise occupied?

[odeon]

But why would a farmer who could live on what he harvested need a political system or authorities at all?

Well, the farmer might get sick. He'd have to either pay for a doctor or peruse a system that provides healthcare.

[TheoK]

If you are  you don't need healthcare. Great grandpa died at 84 without being to a doctor ever 

[Jesse]

So your new insult is that I have a life outside my basement, and as such get up and leave the house? 

You dont have a life heehaw. your life consists of following me around a message board with a sore bottom.

["couldbecousin"]

But why would a farmer who could live on what he harvested need a political system or authorities at all?

Well, the farmer might get sick. He'd have to either pay for a doctor or peruse a system that provides healthcare.

  Also, one big storm or drought could wipe out all the farmer's crops, leaving him
  destitute and in need of help from other members of society.  It happens. 

[Jesse]

You're just grateful, aren't you? 

Yes, yes, I am. You know I gotta say, Why go to all the trouble when some other clown will do it for me? 

[midlifeaspie]

You're just grateful, aren't you? 

Yes, yes, I am. You know I gotta say, Why go to all the trouble when some other clown will do it for me? 

Someone else makes all your decisions 

['andersom']

If you are  you don't need healthcare. Great grandpa died at 84 without being to a doctor ever 

Grandpa went to a garage to buy parts, his cars never were repaired by someone else than him.

[odeon]

If you are  you don't need healthcare. Great grandpa died at 84 without being to a doctor ever 

Nothing to do with being , with all due respect.

[odeon]

If you are  you don't need healthcare. Great grandpa died at 84 without being to a doctor ever 

Grandpa went to a garage to buy parts, his cars never were repaired by someone else than him.

Unless he built the car and the parts himself, he was still part of an oppressive system.

[midlifeaspie]

If you are  you don't need healthcare. Great grandpa died at 84 without being to a doctor ever 

Nothing to do with being , with all due respect.

If you are :lucky: you don't need health care.

[TheoK]

You don't seem to grasp the width of how wrong this system is. If you have read "1984", you know that they pretend to wage war only to destroy things so that the working masses have to work harder to be kept in check.

Now this isn't a fantasy by George Orwell but is actually reality in 2012. Robots and computers could do 90-95% of all work already, so why don't they? Why do people have to work? To keep them in check, so that the psychopaths in charge can still have their power. If people didn't have to work, the hierarchy would break down. People could use all their free time to demand their rights. That mustn't happen, so people must be kept wage slaves.

That is also the reason why we have the immigration to the western world: to destroy the social security system and divide and conquer.

[Adam]

FFS, we've all read 1984. I am sick to death of people referencing 1984 when talking about today's society. Yes, there are parallels. No, it is not the same thing. Lit, I agree with a lot of what you are saying. I don't think the world is great either. I don't like the system either. But your alternative is unrealistic and your view is too extreme.

[TheoK]

[Dexter Morgan]

Voting is the most overrated part of democracy.  Cuba, North Korea, and Iran have elections, but that doesn't mean that they are free.