I find it interesting how avidly involved Republicans get when it comes to the life of others when they feel morally threatened - gay marriage, abortion, etc. - yet could give a shit about involving themselves (or spending money) on a struggling single mother who needs help, or the homeless person needing some aid to get back on their feet. Quite the agenda.
"Essentially, earned helplessness is the continued or repeated occurrence of a negative situation that an individual cannot escape or avoid that causes them to learn to be helpless to change it
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they got the house and the senate too. its going to be a rough four years. perhaps the assault weapons that they didn't ban will be the only thing left to protect our civil liberties.
another thing occured to me just as i finished that.
kerry didn't lose this election because of bush. he lost it because he had no chance in hell of ever winning a state south of the mason-dixon line. you simply cannot win the presidency as a democrat without taking states from the south. new england and the west coast simply can't do it on their own.
kerry shot himself in the foot in the south over and over and over, instead focusing on swing states with HEAVILY rural populations that he should've given up for lost a long time ago. democrats are an urban party with urban voters, but this is a country where mob rule dictates they NEED more support in the southern and rural areas of the country than they've gotten. that's the only way clinton ever won, and it's the only way edwards will win in 08. heh.
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I find it interesting how avidly involved Republicans get when it comes to the life of others when they feel morally threatened - gay marriage, abortion, etc. - yet could give a shit about involving themselves (or spending money) on a struggling single mother who needs help, or the homeless person needing some aid to get back on their feet. Quite the agenda.
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kerry didn't lose this election because of bush. he lost it because he had no chance in hell of ever winning a state south of the mason-dixon line. you simply cannot win the presidency as a democrat without taking states from the south. new england and the west coast simply can't do it on their own.
kerry shot himself in the foot in the south over and over and over, instead focusing on swing states with HEAVILY rural populations that he should've given up for lost a long time ago. democrats are an urban party with urban voters, but this is a country where mob rule dictates they NEED more support in the southern and rural areas of the country than they've gotten. that's the only way clinton ever won, and it's the only way edwards will win in 08. heh.
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