There are many posting on dKos and around the blogosphere who don't want to believe that the dam is breaking. People who are sure these thugs will spin themselves out of trouble again, continuing the destruction of our democracy.
I want to say to these people ...
Trust Yourself.
Reality is breaking through. It is not just you.
You aren't having just another fit of optimism as another Bush scandal streaks across the blogosphere only to be excruciatingly dashed when the story disappears into the memory hole.
We've been dazed. The way the republican noise machine has defined reality since 911 has taken advantage of the fact that we've been dazed. They've controlled the spin masterfully and there have been many diaries written explaining how this could happen so I won't get into that here.
I simply want to say that as you notice the press wake up and as you notice your friends and family wake up and even as you notice congressional republicans wake up (yes they will) to what has been going on inside this administration since even before 911, as you notice the reality based community shatter the mighty republican wurlitzer, starting with Karl Rove ...
Trust Yourself.
It is really happening.