# Summarize Complex Political Issues in 10 Words or Less **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 8, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332 "2011-07-08T17:30:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![enigmatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@enigmatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigmatic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/21 "2011-07-14T22:07:25Z")
Every time you buy something, you vote ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/22 "2011-07-14T22:37:03Z")
To play the 10 word devil’s advocate: > [@Merijeek](#): > > Fuck you, I got mine. How can you not care? > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Complex political issues usually can’t be solved by simple solutions. Simple solutions are generally the most effective. > [@DSeid](#): > > I support the thought out, not the bought out. Those who can buy out can think out. > [@stpauler](#): > > Jews and Muslims want the same land. And it’s working so well for them, both. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Hate Government? Hate Taxes? We welcome you to Somalia. Love Government? Love Taxes? We welcome you to Cuba. ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/23 "2011-07-14T22:40:07Z")
Hot Summers! Cold winters! Global warming is bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/24 "2011-07-14T22:45:58Z")
Listen, we didn’t know that ‘Tea Bagging’ really meant _that_. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/25 "2011-07-14T22:51:51Z")
Democrats: Rerun of Great Society. Republicans: above all else, win. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/26 "2011-07-15T02:42:41Z")
I’m gonna hold my breath 'til you cut taxes! ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/27 "2011-07-15T07:27:33Z")
For Canada: Appointing Senators is unrepresentative, but why have two Commons? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/28 "2011-07-15T07:33:07Z")
Cut everything else, but give the military more. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/29 "2011-07-15T08:00:34Z")
Ban the [shoulder thing that goes up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rGpykAX1fo). ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/30 "2011-07-16T04:43:45Z")
Repubs: God said, “the rich shall have lower taxes.” ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/31 "2011-07-16T12:05:03Z")
Taxes? We don’t need no stinking taxes! ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/32 "2011-07-16T12:06:05Z")
Republicans? We don’t need no stinking Republicans! ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/33 "2011-07-16T22:53:13Z")
Rejoice! Dems don’t give a shit about your guns. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/34 "2011-07-20T11:26:39Z")
10 words, haiku: Drastic spending cuts Balanced budget, no new tax Too draconian ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/35 "2011-07-21T11:54:22Z")
I don’t claim credit for any of these, in fact, I bet one of these is from this very board. Don’t like my market-god? Talk to the invisible hand. Killing for profit bad; killing for “human rights” good. Government is incompetent; innocent people are never executed. When our elite manipulate the public things will be better. Foreigners steal our jobs; sit around on welfare all day. Democracy good; heads up, 30% of people are authoritarians. Problem with violent revolutions: violent people win them. Post-racial America: we’re all niggers now. Adjudicating other’s internal conflicts works out so well for us. America! Fuck yeah! Speaking half-truths to power, better than no truth at all. Let’s worship founding fathers, a homogeneous group that always agreed. Only straights should mess up adopted children. All the elections have already been decided. The people lost. The revolution will be Anonymously Commented Upon. Vote for Cthulhu. Why choose the lesser evil? Allow harlots to practice their quim craft. God will judge. Republicans crucify Obama for doing what they wanted him to do. Challenging the executive will be subverted into normalization of power. Better if formation of cooperative killing machines was guarded against. Murdoch took cable news, made it what it already was. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/36 "2011-07-21T16:50:14Z")
I have to say, I like the word “quimcraft”. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/37 "2011-07-22T10:35:52Z")
Abortion issue: Protect fetuses or give freedom; life has choices ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/38 "2011-07-22T11:31:30Z")
Life begins at conception, and ends at birth. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/39 "2011-07-22T13:43:16Z")
Abortion: when is babby formed? Nobody can agree. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332/40 "2011-07-22T15:23:10Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Fuck you, I got mine. > > -Joe Unless you give Ayn Rand’s name that post is plagiarism.😛 Not raising the debt ceiling could fuck you up bigtime. or Not raising debt ceiling ≠ Pubs want responsible spending. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-complex-political-issues-in-10-words-or-less/588332.md?page=3)