I've yet to have seen a clear choice candidate arise who would support my own ideologies, nor do I honestly expect that one will.

I often feel that we as a nation are standing at the brink of a great abyss in terms of where we will be 20-50yrs hence and I am saddened to think what "should" be done to preserve our nation will not be done.

While I can't say I'm in complete alignment with the proletariat vs capitalist argument portrayed above by shaDEz posting, I feel there are some valid points in it just as assuredly. I feel looking at the issues with the mindset that solutions can not be undertaken nor championed by people who like making money seems a bit short sighted all in all. I also take issue with the flip side of the concept that anyone making money must be inherently flawed in their thinking in relation to what is best for the working class American.

What to me personally will be the greatest crime in the upcoming election is that the only "real shot" candidate will likely be either Democrat or Republican and I fear neither party or their underlying agendas are what will be needed to move us as a country in the direction I would like to see us move towards for a truly brighter future.

I have watched all my life as America has moved further and further into the dire straits of a police state. Governmenet intervention into all facets of our lives has become more and more apparent and increasingly heavy handed in the way the laws are enforced.

While great strides forward in the area of womens rights and the rights of minorities have been made in my time on the planet (and as a US citizen) these same steps forward have come at a cost to mens rights and a form of litigously enforced discrimination against whites in favor of minority rights, which make no mistake friends is just as surely a form of discrimination just the same. Any time one gender or race receives empowerment or preferential treatment over any other THAT is just a differing form of discrimination, yet discrimination all the same.

It's only that in todays politically correct spotlight these moves can not be viewed as discriminitory lest one be viewed as a racist or a sexist and that is the argument used in EVERY reproach of the suppressive policies these moves have enabled.

In summation I feel that once more we will be faced with the same lesser of evils choices I've felt encompassed every election I've had the opportunity to vote in and no matter what, I don't feel any choice of candidates will be what's needed