I made some phone calls for Obama last week. Most of the few people who answered their phones on what must have been an outstandingly beautiful day in Colorado were, luckily, Democrats. However, toward the end of my 2-hour shift, I got a live Libertarian on the phone. and was he pissed! He ranted about too much regulation paralyzing business, that businesses were not creating jobs right now till they saw how the election was going to go. Same with banks: they weren't lending in case Obama got re-elected. I put in my 2 cents: that too little regulation is what got us into the worst recession since the Great Depression, that business, the airlines, the utility companies simply will not regulate themselves. Big businesses were sending our jobs overseas, not creating more here in the US. And generous tax cuts for the rich have had zero effect on job creation; they're all just sitting on their cash.
It became clear that the poor guy was about to have apoplexy on the spot, so I broke into his raving and said "So, I guess I'll put you down as a no, right?" I think he wanted to yell some more, but I'd had my fill and said goodbye. Then hung up. If you say goodbye they can't accuse you of hanging up on them.
There is a lot of anger out there; no point in adding to it.
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