A recent poll released by the London-based partnership, Economist/YouGov, found that 71% of Obama-voters don't know what the word regret means. The poll asked a very simple question of Obama-voters: "Do you regret voting for Barrack Obama?" An incredible 71% answered yes, and a mere 26% answered no; but, astonishingly, 79% said that they would do the exact same thing---the thing that they just openly admitted to regretting---if given the exact same choice, and would vote for Obama once again. Only 10% said they would switch and vote for Romney, and the other 11% presumably chose to abstain.
As someone who didn't vote in the last election, I can sympathize with those Obama-voters who chose to abstain from voting in this hypothetical rematch. If I could've cast a ballot for a serious candidate who opposed the DC Establishment I would have, but I had no interest in placing my personal stamp of "democracy" on a choice between whether I wanted my fascism straight-up or watered-down and on the rocks---I'm a fan of Mitt Romney, but he's a CEO/manager, and we need a revolutionary. Those Obama-voters have my hypothetical sympathy for their hypothetical choice---for the others, I have only deep-seated disdain for their choice, and will feel only indifference---perhaps mixed with a regrettable degree of satisfaction---when reality teaches them the true meaning of the word regret---the type of regret felt by every member of every society in the history of the world that gave-up whatever measure of freedom they had in exchange for the promises of socialist-dictatorship---the type of regret felt by every enviousness mediocrity who traded-in their freedom in exchange for the promise of a "greater-share" of the material possessions of the productive, successful members of their society. What these people are claiming to "regret" is not their choice to vote for Obama, but rather the fact that his promises were as hallow as the space between their ears that led them to that choice.
As someone who didn't vote in the last election, I can sympathize with those Obama-voters who chose to abstain from voting in this hypothetical rematch. If I could've cast a ballot for a serious candidate who opposed the DC Establishment I would have, but I had no interest in placing my personal stamp of "democracy" on a choice between whether I wanted my fascism straight-up or watered-down and on the rocks---I'm a fan of Mitt Romney, but he's a CEO/manager, and we need a revolutionary. Those Obama-voters have my hypothetical sympathy for their hypothetical choice---for the others, I have only deep-seated disdain for their choice, and will feel only indifference---perhaps mixed with a regrettable degree of satisfaction---when reality teaches them the true meaning of the word regret---the type of regret felt by every member of every society in the history of the world that gave-up whatever measure of freedom they had in exchange for the promises of socialist-dictatorship---the type of regret felt by every enviousness mediocrity who traded-in their freedom in exchange for the promise of a "greater-share" of the material possessions of the productive, successful members of their society. What these people are claiming to "regret" is not their choice to vote for Obama, but rather the fact that his promises were as hallow as the space between their ears that led them to that choice.
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