!!!ABSOLUTE 100% ANXIETY !!!
panic, fear, horror, & loathing = PHOBIA
So bad that I have to be placed under sedation to even stay
in the chair much less allow a dentist Near my mouth...
Trauma from an early childhood experience.

Love- blind?

One Can Only Hope So...

Somewhat amending my initial answer. If you believe in the plausibility that it's entirely possible to win The Lottery; then my answer still remains, "YES!"

Hillary won because the African Americans turned out in numbers to vote for her.


Hillary won because she's got enough Bank & Wall Street funding & favoritism to promise "Special Favors" to the Leaders of "Special Interest" Groups[ AFRICAN AMERICAN & LATINO] to exert their control & prod their constituents to get the votes out in her behalf! "The Fix Is In"[& always has been]. The Democratic Nomination is/was rigged & is over. In truth, it most likely never began. Hillary Clinton will win because she cannot lose, no matter what lie she tells or what dishonest & unethical scandal she's enmeshed-in; it's THE GOLDEN RULE..."HE/SHE WHO HAS THE GOLD-MAKES THE RULES."
The Real Joke may yet, turn out to be on these Rich, Narcissistic, Greedy Wankers. While THEY may be able to Buy Their Candidate's Party Nomination; watch while the whole process goes "Pear-Shaped" when The Donald is elected "Mr.President";} Frankly, I do not believe that Hillary's "Electable" in terms of the distrust & disgust that she rightfully inspires in too many people across The States. lmao! Hell, after the the overt corruption that I've observed? I'll even campaign for that Frigging Lunatic Madman [Trump] over even thinking of voting for Clinton! At least...He's Not "Owned".


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Star thinking with your Head,instead of doing Knee-Jerks!



*STAR* thinking?

READ...READ...READ...READ...READ.

LEARN.

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE
https://youtu.be/PPkoK1G0stY

Welcome, To The Future"..........(mechanical female voice) _ Day by day, you sat back and watched as your liberty's were taken away...... You remained silent, except for when you spoke to criticize, those who were trying to make you aware......Little by little, you have lost, "all" that was familiar to you.....Because of your lethargy, you no longer live the freedoms you enjoyed..... Now, survival is all you care about....Welcome, to the future. Complacency, was your downfall. Now, you are paying the price. You are overwhelmed with fear....And now, panic is beginning to set in..... Blame only yourself....Blame only yourself.....Welcome, to the future. (john's ending voice) "You are now slaves of the system"!!!! " The signs were around you, but you failed to prepare" !!! "Bow Down To Your Leaders" !!!!!!! "Welcome To Your Future" !!!!! "Welcome, To The Future" !!!!! hahahaha..........

"My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books."
Kurt Vonnegut
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The way I see it? Perhaps I'm incorrect but perhaps not. I've included several, [but certainly not all] references from which I've I've derived my own conclusion. I guess no bothered to even watch or read as everyone seems to be subjectively "reacting" to "Buzz-Words" like communism, socialism, ect. Ok-point made. Obviously it's a waste of my time & effort to bring any more into this conversation because all that happening here is just a spewing-forth of personal bias & subjective opinions without any academic, factual, or empirical information to back-up these subjective "opinions"?!? Someone even wrote about his personal experience in China with communism?!? What does communist China have to do with the financial collapse in The US & the actual political position that define Sanders platform as per those scholars who study philosophy, society, & economics? none Someone wants to blame the economy crash & bank bail-out on Obama[alone]who had just taken office in 2008! Someone else decries the fact that the democrats have been in power for 8 yrs & not been effective?The 2014 elections gave the Republicans control of the Senate (and control of both houses of Congress) for the first time since the 109th Congress. With 247 seats in the House of Representatives and 54 seats in the Senate, this Congress began with the largest Republican majority since the 71st Congress of 1929–1931.There is no Government ; there is just The Corporations. BTW, as for my own personal experience? One of my siblings is a legal professional who's engaged in helping the "Rich become Richer" by finding tax loopholes, setting-up dummy corporations, hiding their dollars, & getting their money out of the US into off-shore banking & other untraceable investments-All LEGAL, of course;} So feel free to keep the corrupt & broken system going & paying for the unbridled greed of The Wealthy. I'm certain that will work out really well for all of us in the oncoming years

" Most people who stress the importance of brutal honesty, are only brutally honest and strict about SELECTIVE offenses. Why is brutal honesty so specifically targeted in one area and not on others? "

I look forward to the day when people not only point out the turds of others, but also get rid of their own turds. As it turns out, whether a turd comes from a liberal or non-liberal, ALL TURDS STINK


Please elaborate...?

In Terms of The Multi-Trillion Dollar Debt?
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WE'RE NOT BROKE Trailer
https://youtu.be/pYVAYtwX7QM

WE'RE NOT BROKE is the story of how U.S. corporations have been able to hide over a trillion dollars from Uncle Sam, and how seven fed-up Americans from across the country, take their frustration to the streets . . . and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share. Synopsis: America is in the grip of a societal economic panic. Lawmakers cry "We're Broke!" as they slash budgets, lay off schoolteachers, police, and firefighters, crumbling our country's social fabric and leaving many Americans scrambling to survive. Meanwhile, multibillion-dollar American corporations like Exxon, Google and Bank of America are making record profits. And while the deficit climbs and the cuts go deeper, these corporations—with intimate ties to our political leaders—are concealing colossal profits overseas to avoid paying U.S. income tax.
WE'RE NOT BROKE is the story of how U.S. corporations have been able to hide over a trillion dollars from Uncle Sam, and how seven fed-up Americans from across the country, take their frustration to the streets . . . and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share.
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ALL of the following references would have a major issue in the interpretations & definitions being bandied about in regard to the economy & politics on this thread.*Shrugs* Really, but "What Do They Know?!?" Just another insidious bunch of dumb terrorist commie-socialists trying to spread more anti-american propaganda & lies;}
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The Truth About the Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE
Robert Reich connects the dots on the economy,
in less than 2 minutes and 15 seconds.
Who knew he could draw!?!
ROBERT B. REICH is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books, including the best sellers “Aftershock, “The Work of Nations," and"Beyond Outrage," and, his most recent, "Saving Capitalism." He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, INEQUALITY FOR ALL.
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"The Men Who Crashed The World"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYTyluv4Gws
Uploaded on Sep 25, 2011
The first of a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that led to financial collapse.
In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; a ferocious Wall Street predator; and the power behind the throne.
The crash of September 2008 brought the largest bankruptcies in world history, pushing more than 30 million people into unemployment and bringing many countries to the edge of insolvency. Wall Street turned back the clock to 1929.But how did it all go so wrong?Lack of government regulation; easy lending in the US housing market meant anyone could qualify for a home loan with no government regulations in place.Also, London was competing with New York as the banking capital of the world. Gordon Brown, the British finance minister at the time, introduced 'light touch regulation' - giving bankers a free hand in the marketplace.All this, and with key players making the wrong financial decisions, saw the world's biggest financial collapse.
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Socialism For Dummies.Part 1
Richard D. Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysZC0JOYYWw
Academic positions
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan.
Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne).
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Socialism For Dummies - part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUuw_K-ky0
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Intellectual Noam Chomsky endorses Bernie Sanders for President
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYJAkm1kiCE
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate. Bernard "Bernie" Sanders is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Vermont. He is running as a democrat in the 2016 U.S. Presidential race.Chomsky first announced his endorsement last March on twitter (before Bernie Sanders announced that he is running for president in April.) He said, "I could endorse him in the limited way I've sometimes endorsed political candidates whose views I generally agree with. In safe states, makes good sense to vote for them. In swing states it's a more complex situation, for familiar reasons that can't be ignored. The candidacy, if announced, could be done so as to address that question." http://imgur.com/WC2RW9T
In May of 1985, then-Mayor Bernie Sanders of Burlington, Vermont brought Noam Chomsky to talk about the U.S. military intervention in Latin America. As Sanders introduced Chomsky he said, “At a time when many intellectuals…find it more comfortable to be silent and to go with the flow as it were, it is comforting to find on occasion individuals who have the guts to speak out about the important issues of our time, and certainly Professor Chomsky has been the person to do it.” Watch Bernie Sanders introduce Noam Chomsky in this lecture
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Richard Wolff: On Bernie Sanders and Socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhH-PWjR3b0
This week: On Sanders and Socialism. Is socialism still an American taboo? Not so much, says professor Richard Wolff; nor was it in the past, says Nation columnist John Nichols. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University in New York City. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books, including his most recent; Capitalism’s Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown 2010- 2014, and he hosts the weekly Economic Update podcast. John Nichols' many books include The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism, and, most recently, Dollarocracy: How the Money-and-Media-Election Complex is Destroying America. This episode also features an commentary from Laura on renaming capitalism.
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Economic Inequality: It’s Far Worse Than You Think
The great divide between our beliefs, our ideals, and reality
By Nicholas Fitz on March 31, 2015
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/economic-inequality-it-s-far-worse-than-you-think/
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80% of Americans own an unbelievably small portion of the country's wealth
It turns out that Americans severely underestimate the gap between the rich and the rest of the population.
http://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-in-the-us-is-much-more-extreme-than-you-think-2015-6
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Here's The Biggest Problem In The American Economy
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-problem-with-our-economy-2012-9#ixzz2MayE5A3a
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Sen. Bernie Sanders slams the NDAA on the Senate Floor --
cites bloated military and out of control intelligence
spending as reasons for his "no" vote.
Watch his speech and read the transcript at the link.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/congress-alert/2013/december/21/sen-bernie-sanders-exposes-bloated-military-and-intelligence-spending.aspx
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Published on Feb 11, 2016
"I think we need to believe in a leader like Bernie Sanders.
People are dying. This is real. We need a president that will talk about it.
Bernie is a protester. He's not scared to go up against the criminal justice system. He is not scared."
- Erica Garner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syln8IkOIqc&feature=youtu.be

I roll my own as well & have shopped the internet in the quest to create-"The Perfect Blend";] If you tell me what tobacco you enjoy Crystal, perhaps I can give you some information as to how best to procure in The States;} Actually the issue is not availability but really- affordability$$$, because any European blend is available in The US ~If you can afford to pay big buck$$$ for it! If the cost of your brand is outrageous, perhaps I can offer suggestions as to a less expensive but comparable domestic blend. We do grow some some lovely tobaccos here in The US that you might totally enjoy?

"McCarthy & His Dirty Commies" hiding out in your bran-flakes again old fella? Well, being the fact that you don't even live in Amerika anymore; whot's the problem?
FYI: Sanders is a Humanist, not some fascist/socialist/commie dictator who happens to be very tired of the corruption, greed, & corporate control of the federal government at the expense of the vast majority of American citizens.

Hmmmmmm... Do you have 4 more years on this planet? Irregardless of age, no one knows how long his/her life will be. Personally I feel that's a totally inappropriate comment that pertains to nothing but smallness of mind & character. As there appears to be quite a few crusty, cantankerous, & cognitively-challenged curmudgeons with one or both feet either in their mouths or heading for that great dirt-nap posting on this thread; that "Grave" had best be dug sizable enough for multi-occupant use!

Hell No! I ain't getting THAT close much less spraying any creepy critter on the ceiling with anything! Why?!? So the fracking insect could fall on meeeeeee?!? Yikes!!!
NO WAY!!!
"Need A Man" for that;}

WE'RE NOT BROKE
https://youtu.be/33ywO0SgGYE

Synopsis: America is in the grip of a societal economic panic. Lawmakers cry "We're Broke!" as they slash budgets, lay off schoolteachers, police, and firefighters, crumbling our country's social fabric and leaving many Americans scrambling to survive. Meanwhile, multibillion-dollar American corporations like Exxon, Google and Bank of America are making record profits. And while the deficit climbs and the cuts go deeper, these corporations—with intimate ties to our political leaders—are concealing colossal profits overseas to avoid paying U.S. income tax. WE'RE NOT BROKE is the story of how U.S. corporations have been able to hide over a trillion dollars from Uncle Sam, and how seven fed-up Americans from across the country, take their frustration to the streets . . . and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share.
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The average middle income taxpayers are already feeling-more than a "Bern" due to having to "carry the shortfall" as the top 10% of the nation's wealthiest individuals pay little to zero taxes;}