Seniors, has anything happened when you were feeling hopeless that turned things around? What was it?

The last time I voted for a major-party presidential candidate was in 1972. That was the year when The Honorable Senator from South Dakota, George McGovern, ran against the loathsome, well-known reptile Tricky Dicky Nixon. The nation was given the very rare opportunity to vote for one of the most honest, effective, conscientious, and talented statesmen in our history.

And instead, the pig-ignorant morons of the American electorate OVERWHELMINGLY voted for the crook. And perhaps the most disgusting thing about that particular contest was that, in the wake of the honest man being trounced by the gangster, the Democratic Party had an internal powwow of its top bigwigs, who decided to restructure the party's nominating process to make it MORE DIFFICULT for honest men to run for office, and EASIER for crooks to do it. In other words, they decided to make Democrats MORE LIKE TRICKY DICKY.

Thus, the Democrats now have more hacks and more crooks and more losers--such as Walter Mondale, Al Gore, John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton, to name a few. So, since 1972, I really haven't had much faith in the American political process. Not at any level higher than city or county offices.

And not much even at that level.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.