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@MauronKilom:
your
description
of
the
German
political
campaigning
is
pretty
similar
to
ours,
except
the
worst
case
scenarios
are
politicians
severely
stretching
the
truth
and
digging
up
any
possible
kind
of
dirt
on
their
opponents
for
horrendously
tacky
and
offensive
mudslinging.
Republicans
and
Democrats
are
two
faces
of
the
same
coin,
but
most
people
pick
sides
anyway
because
"if
you're
not
with
us,
you're
against
us"
and
smaller,
niche
parties
don't
have
enough
influence
to
win
--
they
can
only
pull
votes
from
the
"most
similar"
candidate
which
is
why
I
think
more
people
don't
go
independent,
because
at
least
they
can
vote
for
the
lesser
of
two
evils.
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@MauranKilom:
your
description
of
the
German
political
campaigning
is
pretty
similar
to
ours,
except
the
worst
case
scenarios
are
politicians
severely
stretching
the
truth
and
digging
up
any
possible
kind
of
dirt
on
their
opponents
for
horrendously
tacky
and
offensive
mudslinging.
Republicans
and
Democrats
are
two
faces
of
the
same
coin,
but
most
people
pick
sides
anyway
because
"if
you're
not
with
us,
you're
against
us"
and
smaller,
niche
parties
don't
have
enough
influence
to
win
--
they
can
only
pull
votes
from
the
"most
similar"
candidate
which
is
why
I
think
more
people
don't
go
independent,
because
at
least
they
can
vote
for
the
lesser
of
two
evils.
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As far as the decline of the "moral America": There have *always* been issues and atrocities that have directly contradicted our founding fathers' ideals, and every day politicians slowly chip away at the vigilance of the population. Bills that are found to be unconstitutional or are otherwise struck down are immediately re-introduced with minor, less dramatic changes which are slowly more intrusive and evil over time. The story of the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog]boiling frog[/url] pretty much sums it up.
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As far as the decline of the "moral America": There have *always* been issues and atrocities that have directly contradicted our founding fathers' ideals, and every day politicians slowly chip away at the vigilance of the population. Bills that are found to be unconstitutional or are otherwise struck down are immediately re-introduced with minor, less dramatic changes which are slowly more intrusive and evil over time. The story of the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog]boiling frog[/url] pretty much sums it up.
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