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Then you'll be satisfied either way
John 'Keating' McCain sounds better than Barack Hussein Obama. And better earned.
Because in the short term nothing much changes regardless of who you vote for or who gets elected, with respect to the things that concern you. If you are an endist, vote for McCain. If you're not an endist, you're a declinist, although you may not realize that yet.
“My message of decline is grim, but let us not despair. The declinists wake us up, so that we avoid decline; but the endists urge us to celebrate as we drift towards disaster. Those who urged us to invade Iraq are endists; I’m a declinist…. but only to revive my strategic optimism.”
Or, you could vote for Martin Gifford but I think he's Australian...
http://www.worldwidehappiness.org/
And an optimist.