Quote from: CoinDiver on August 21, 2012, 12:43:12 PM

They're both a joke... But I almost hope Obama wins, just so the biggest collapse in history is at the hands of the socialist, rather than the faux-free market Romney and fake libertarian Ryan.

I understand your thinking and I agree. It's a comfortable thought that he can get the blame and then be forced to pay pennance by,say, going on tv every day to apologise, thus reminding everyone all the time and driving the message home. The reality, unfortunately is vastly different. Take the UK, for example. After years of a socialist party dominance, the finances have been left in tatters and the country changed by thousands of inane laws that are designed to criminalise everyone. The main players have been blamed and found responsible but no action will ever realistically be taken. They are all now sitting pretty in jobs-for-the-boys.

The new bunch took over (not much difference) and a couple of years on, people are crying that they want the old bunch back again because the new ones are giving away less free stuff. Rinse and repeat.

My point is that people have incredibly short memories and won't demand or be serious about blame and consequence as long as there is still electricity to run their gadgets and meat comes in nice plastic packaging from a convenient supermarket. There needs to be an immense fark up on a huge scale, enough to seriously disrupt the status quo and turn the emperor's clothes to cinders.