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Originally Posted by Fusion
Regarding your point, what exactly would you have the self-righteous liberals do? Not voting for Obama is in essence a vote for Romney. If enough liberals abstain in a close election (which this election surely will be), it will allow Romney to win. We all know that a Republican President will not only continue the Bush era policies like the Patriot Act, but will likely expand them. How does that help the liberal cause?
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As has Obama already, tbh. The war on whistleblowers and infosec, additional surveillance powers, extra-judicial killings, all of these things are practiced on a scale much greater than those under Bush. Forget nebulous concepts like the liberal cause, etc. his record on stuff like that in the past 4 years is terrible.
The default assumption seems to be that Romney is a worse choice for all concerned but on the above list, short of the declaration of martial law and the enacting of an East-German-like police state, it's hard to imagine a world where
anyone could have done any worse. For all the good that's occurred under his watch, there's a heck of a lot of bad and 'But the other guys is worse' doesn't cut it, especially since many seem apt to use it as a club to shut down debate.