Truvia, never silence yourself if you have something important to say. Never will everyone agree with you (I didn't) but that doesn't mean your opinions or voice should not be expressed. You are articulate and have interesting reasons for why you believe as you do, variety is the spice of life. You started an excellent, thought provoking thread my friend.
Bagpiper (are you really? My first bf was just such as you) you also had some interesting, thought provoking comments, most of which I agreed with, with the exception of Sarah Palin of course (my jury is still out on her).
And Foothiller, you hit the nail squarely on the head. Well said.
In a perfect world, we would all go against the propagandized swill offerings of the PTB, and do an organized write in candidate of which all participants would stand up and be numbered. That would prove vote tallys are correct, instead of the "anonymous" electronic voting machines with no hard copy backup of internal workings.
We are at the end of the Church Age, evil is running rampant. Evil men will prosper at this time, as we are seeing, and truth will be at a premium and rare as diamonds. Bottom line is, we're the Titanic and global icebergs are being set strong and impenetrable to rip us asunder. We all know how this ship goes down, and we are as prepared as we can be. The election is nothing more than a smokescreen, a ruse to keep us all occupied while the real movers and shakers are doing business as usual, setting up their global estates. Truth be told.