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Lower Expectations

A.11 Wrote: Aug 26, 2010 7:16 AM

Absolutely! Many of us are disgusted with both parties, and in my view Republicans are simply the lesser of two evils. I think they have a very small window of opportunity to do the right thing, presuming they can regain control in November. Screw this up, and I think Libertarian or another viable third party will rise up. It should have happened a long time ago but so many are worried about "wasting their vote", as if they aren't doing that anyway by voting for most major party candidates.

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Lower Expectations

In 2008, "60 Minutes" visited Denmark to report on a survey of international happiness conducted by Leicester University in England that concluded Danes are among the happiest people on Earth. The reason? They have low expectations and thus, as Morley Safer noted, "are rarely disappointed."

This ought to be a Republican Party theme in the November and subsequent elections. If our expectations about politicians and government are lowered, we will then start expecting less from them and more from ourselves, then our prospects for happiness will likely be much improved.

Take spending. Clearly we can't go on like this. People should...

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