Here's the thing, Donald: you get to make your decisions about who to vote for, or even if you want to vote at all, but you don't get to lecture others about the choices they make.  You don't get to use guilt and fear and shame to make people come to the same decision you've come to.  And coming on the heels of your I-made-good-decisions-and-am-a-millionaire-on-paper speech, this was about as offensive a rant as I've read in a while: Donald lectures the little people about how selfish they are.

Gee, thanks.

We all know how crappy the GOP field is; we're all paying attention - that's one reason many of us are here - because we ARE paying attention.  

And we can see what's going on just fine, and what the future looks like, even without your condescending assistance - really, we can.  The Democrats aren't pulling us out of any hole - they're economically shoving more and more bodies in it so they can keep working to attain Master of the Universe status.  And because it's becoming obvious even to us common folk that there are no good answers to be found in either party - the destination is the same, it's now merely a matter of whether you want the local or the express, an aisle seat or a window - it's my belief that more people than ever will make the choice to vote for no one in 2012.  "None of the Above."  "Is This All Ya Got?"  "My Tax Dollars Are Paying for This?"

And the clown parade is just starting - first they all have to get out of the clown car...

I know the media will do its best to stir controversy and jazz people up with daily dose of Sarah "It's not about me" Palin and Michelle "yes, I really am that dumb" Bachmann, but it's going to fail.  People are so beaten down by economic conditions and so demoralized by the failure of the elite to throw much more than crumbs to the masses that they just are not going to vote.

That's a choice, too, Donald - not voting.  

And what are these stark choices of which you speak?  Based on past behavior, that's pure wishful thinking on your part.  I would be happy to be wrong.  I would have Masses said if I were wrong, but if the difference between a Reagan Republican (Obama) and the current crop of GOP "contenders" is far from stark.  They just say outright what Reagan only implied.

As a member of the top 2%, you are not going to worry about whether or not members of your family are going to go to bed hungry or become homeless. No baby in you family will become malnourished because of cuts to WIC. No member of your family will freeze to death in the winter because of cuts to heating assistance. Your survival does not depend on receiving the current SS or Medicare benefits. You and yours will survive just fine if they are gutted completely. Others will not be as fortunate.

Obama's economic policies are not only working just fine for millionaires and billionaires they have benefited by them.

One historical note:  I think the Great Depression could have been, if not over then considerably ameliorated had FDR not gone Hoover all of a sudden in 1937 and begun worrying about non-issues like inflation and deficits.  I think he'd whittled unemployment down to about 14% (from 25% upon taking office) and the trends were strongly in the right direction.

I think now Obama is in his FDR 1937 deer in the headlights moment -- utterly flummoxed as to what to do.  It took Roosevelt nearly a year to pull his thoughts together and react properly.  Obama of course has that lesson to learn by, and he won't have a full year from this point -- perhaps 8-9 months at the most, and very negative perceptions about his performance may be hard to undo if he has too many more months like the last several, appearing to be passively and too-patiently waiting for natural market forces to do their work, while too many people are suffering.

also next weekend I am supposed to do this: