Life's a bitch when you put your trust in a political party that betrays your country. The Senate Democrats could stop a bill that will make all of us, for the first time, vulnerable to indefinite detention and torture. They don't plan to stop this bill, because they are afraid of losing the neo-fascist vote. Maybe the courts will overrule it, maybe not. Maybe Bush will heed the courts, maybe not.
The game is over friends, and America lost. The country we will be living in starting next week will look a lot like an enlarged version of Chile under Pinochet. I think it is time to retool dKos as a force for constructive engagement in personal or community development and stop supporting the Democratic party. They have betrayed out country. Clinton, Obama, Reid, Byrd, the lot of them, have ended up enabling a police state.
If you have the flexibility, It would be prudent to make plans for leaving the United States. If not, you should be aware of the dangers of public political commentary. American Neo-fascists, crazed by fear of radical Islam, are prepared to arrest and torture anyone who challenges them. The permanent emergency is about to commence. It took some Latin American countries decades to come out of their authoritarian nightmares, and they are still trying to sort out the blame and find the bodies. There is no reason to believe America will be more fortunate.