I want everyone to quit saying....

[B-Fly]

"We are going to take this country back" or similar statements.

Take it back from who? Other Americans?

When coming from the right, it usually means take it back from one or more of: overreaching government elected officials or bureaucrats, liberals, secularists, or non-assimilating immigrants and their multi-culti friends.

When coming from the left, it usually means take it back from one or more of: overreaching government elected officials or bureaucrats, conservatives, evangelicals, the military industrial complex, or corporations/Wall Street/the wealthiest 1%.

[TranaGreg]

Sad that I ever expected it or sad that I've given up?

no ... sad that my initial reaction was that this is impossible.

[Lucky]

When coming from the right, it usually means take it back from one or more of: overreaching government elected officials or bureaucrats, liberals, secularists, or non-assimilating immigrants and their multi-culti friends.

When coming from the left, it usually means take it back from one or more of: overreaching government elected officials or bureaucrats, conservatives, evangelicals, the military industrial complex, or corporations/Wall Street/the wealthiest 1%.

How about from the middle? Maybe taking it back from self-important a**holes who either use their office for personal gain, or who improperly influence office-holders for their own benefit, or just jerks who govern us without a real clue as to an appropriate role for government?

[senorsheep]

How about from the middle? Maybe taking it back from self-important a**holes who either use their office for personal gain...

Yes!

...or who improperly influence office-holders for their own benefit...

Yes!

... or just jerks who govern us without a real clue as to an appropriate role for government?

D'oh! Here's where we run into trouble; there's a lot of legitimate disagreement on this point. So maybe we should set that one aside for later and work on those first two?