I have to agree also, with a lot of John's post...on the most part. Where I have a problem, with the other part, is that SOME Democrats have yet to see that their whole deal, has been corrupted beyond WAY beyond any logical description of what they believe themselves to be, and that is vehicles for 'social programs', that, on the most part, having NOTHING to do with social change for the better, but vehicles for the 'banksters' to finance, through 'loans' in which they can charge interest, to make themselves more money and power...at the expense of fiscal responsibility, either for the individual, family, businesses, or country...then they mask it into a quasi-form of responsible 'socialism'...with them, at the top, dictating what the people MUST be compelled to do, think, act like, and behave....so to satisfy THEIR control...for their agendas! If that means forcing the people to sacrifice their freedoms, liberties and/or sovereignty, well, too bad!...it's for the 'overall good'(for them!) The rank and file, believers then in turn, get nasty, and project onto others, that we are 'hateful', 'bigots', divisive, non-compassionate, 'enemies' that need to be 'conquered' into submission...of the bankster's/corporate/government CONTROL.
Now I guess you can somehow justify all that...however, the mindset that we Americans have grown into, and live into, is that, based on the Constitution, we are supposed to guaranteed freedom, ('endowed by 'our Creator') as long as our WILL does not intrude and infringe over the rights of others, and vice-versa. As it is now, that OUR rights are being trampled beyond recognition. When before, we'd go to war, to defend that freedom if our rights to that freedom were threatened, and we kicked ass, now we go to war, to protect the 'interests' (read: greed and control) of the bankster/corporations....and told that it is really 'patriotism'!! We have become a country where our national defense, has been turned into a 'military for rent'....and this practice has been going on, through the hands of both political parties....and the American public instinctively KNOWS, that they are exhausted, supporting agendas that are wearing them out!!!...and consequently, support for either Obama or Romney is NOT enthusiastic, the people are suspicious of both of them, for different reasons, perhaps.....and the 'Uncommitted' numbers are huge.
Now don't be mistaken, I DO NOT promote the divisions, nor have a political posture for anyone to 'subscribe' to....I am merely articulating the reasons of the unsettled undercurrents, that is growing in vast numbers, of common folk in this country. The whipping up of enthusiastic 'support' by the bankster's corporate media, to bend into submission people to 'settle for the lessor of their two evils', is only their barometer, to gauge the successes of 'crowd control' of the masses..............I don't think that, in a clear mind, that I can give them that.......BUT, as a musician/composer/writer, I can remind people who and what they really are!!!!
Let the people decide for themselves what they want to do with it...as long as it does NOT infringe on the rights of others.

There, that wasn't too hard to articulate....once the dust of political partisanship bickering has settled, a little bit.
now, if only that same dust, doesn't get into the way, of seeing clearly..........................

Regards To All Those Other Musicians Out There Doing Folk...Reminding Folks!

GfS