ORIGINAL: YellowAircraft
ORIGINAL: CowboyLifesaver
With this new dictatorship style government that we've had
LOL,
I always wonder what people who actually live under real dictatorships think of us when we talk like this. Over here, when our 'side' loses an election, we call the other guys dictators and socialists and such. In other places, when their 'side' loses an election, some people have hours to get out of the country before they get disappeared by the new government. This kind of thing happens all over the world, all of the time. Yep, elections do matter. At least we get to have them. Count your blessings and remember that even when legislation you don't like is passed, it's after free and democratic elections (when sometimes people on the other side of the issue win). I've spent some time in countries where this isn't the case, so again...count your blessings.
Shaun,
Tell that to the citizens of NYC who have a mayor who decided on his own that he could change the law and run for a third term and now that it's coming to an end, he's changing it back to two terms for the next mayor. I could start to list the draconian ways of Bloomberg but then we would be getting into political talk. If you even bothered to read what cowboy said you wouldn't have had to start the whole "my side their side stuff. He said the last four or five years. That would include both sides.
Marty