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Originally Posted by Jelly Roll
Thankfully, Mitt Romney has very little chance of getting elected so hopefully Amtrak will be able to get funding for this.
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Don't get cocky. Romney's odds are better than die-hard Democrats realize, mostly because Obama has disillusioned so many of them. Even when Obama does things many/most Democrats like, he has this stupid habit of doing them in ways that look weak and provide fodder for the Republicans without looking like a leader. Example, his support of gay marriage. Instead of coming out with it directly, it sort of just stumbled out in a way that looked like, "Oh, ok, since Biden already forced me into it, I'll just stay it, and I'll say it in the weakest way possible without contradicting what my VP said." Then there's his terrible immigration behavior. On the one hand he pisses off the Republicans by suing states trying to enforce Federal law against undocumented immigrants, and on the other hand his administration is probably the most anti-immgrant administration in my lifetime as far as the actual effect of what the people working for him are doing. Net immigration has practically ground to a halt, and it's not all due to the economy. So not only is he terrible on immigration in practice despite paying it lip-service, so that liberal people who actually care about immigration holistically are pissed at him, his lip service serves to piss off the Republicans so much it actually becomes a rallying cry for them.
Most Democrats won't vote for Romney, but all that needs to happen for Romney to win is for enough Democrats to just stay home. That plus the gargantuan advantage Romney is enjoying from Super-PAC spending, and anyone counting him out is blind.
I gave Obama hundreds of dollars last time around, and while I might have been able to vote for the Romney who was governor of Mass, I won't vote for this latest one. But Obama has been such a terrible political failure that I haven't given him anything this time (yet, at least), and while I'll probably vote for him, both candidates leave such a taste of filth in my mouth now that if I got an international job offer I'd jump at it and never look back (and since I finish my masters degree next year at the same time my international partner finishes a doctorate, that's a very real possibility).
I mostly blame the Republicans for the toxic political environment, but I place blame squarely on the Democrats and on obama for being abject failures to deftly deal with it, or even successfully tread water. His emails are pathetic. His allowance of the Democrats to continue to blame Bush is patetic. He's just completely lost his ability to inspire.
I hope Obama wins, but so far any Democrat who thinks it's a no-brainer that he will is blind, deaf and stupid.
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Originally Posted by eternallyme
What happens to rural America then?
Surely, automobiles will continue to exist, just with different technologies in the future.
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Rural America is doomed anyway - particularly once the aquifers under the Great Plains run dry. There will not be a "return to the land" movement barring some sort of biological or nuclear disaster. Nonetheless, cars will, of course, continue to exist.