LOSER! ;) lol!

Excellent, well put. Outstanding.....

I'm slightly confused about this red/blue state issue. As I understand, the red states indicate "the red-blooded Americans". What does the blue stand for?

Blue-blooded Americans?

Blue-blooded? You mean the aristocrats that trodden the middle class?

No man, the aristo-CATS.

I don't know. I think your basic premise is off: we're all red-blooded americans, though some factions might want us to believe that only the red peeps are.

Wiki, everyone's favorite source, says They had always used colored maps but he started calling them red and blue and it stuck.

I was making a lame joke about the red (Republican) states being the so called true, red-blooded Americans. I guess I am showing my age with the phrase. Just trying to get a "RISE" out of some folks here

You silly goose! I'm easy to get a rise out of, but you're such a friendly sort it didn't occur to me you were being a shmart-ash! :)

Red states: I call them the Red Menace.
:drummer:

I was just thinking, if they took the states they said they wanted and left the rest to us, I wonder what they are going to eat this winter and where they are going to get gas and heating oil from. I sure wouldn't send them any. :lol2:

Hey. No copy-catting. :)

Real patriots get their oil from OPEC & Russia. :rolleyes:

This is what worries my libertarian gut about my support for the "lefty" this time around. I don't believe politics should have much impact on our lives. At least the left admitts they're doing it. The right asserts their control over other's lives and somehow disconnects from that reality.

You misunderstand me Griff. I don't mean government or ideology underpins everything else. I mean everything about life is political.

Someone (may have been aristotle?) said "man is a political animal". I agree with that. 'Politics' is just the name we give to how we organise our societies.

Actually, I think I understand. The idea that "we" organize societies rather than societies being a result of natural interactions is my problem. I sat through some right wing organizing the last time I was in a church and listen to left wing organizing at work. So I guess it is the difference between what I want and what I see. The organizers are always out on the right or left edges and are often destroyers not creators.