For Want of a Nail

This being an election year, we are again subjected to pre-approved candidates that do not represent solutions but wish to distract us with catchy slogans and scare us into voting for them.  Bush voters regularly stated the ability for Bush to provide security from terrorism as the reason they chose to vote for him (which is needless to say, hilarious), and voters for Obama could be relied upon to unironically state the need for “hope” and “change” as legit reasons for their own choices. The former being scared into voting for a madman, the later being distracted into voting for the same.
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