... the country everyone here continues to pine for and shed tears for is gone. G-O-N-E. Gone. Welcome to fascism.
This is now a ONE party country - the democrats are either too involved with the lobbyists and scandals themselves and can't take the moral high ground OR they're so fumbling and bumbling that they can't decide WHAT they're FOR, let alone what they're against OR HOW they're going to stop it.
THe democrats are toothless and spineless and have NO message and NO plan. WHY WHY WHY after FIVE years are we still sitting here saying "where are the democrates" and "we need to get mobilized" and "write Harry" or "Write Hillary" or vote or blah blah blah...
We have NO two-party system and we have NO separation of powers. The repuglicans run everything in Washington and use their majority to strangle anything with which they don't agree, that would expose them, or that would stop them.
Face it people: we have to get our heads out of the sand and see this country for what its become: a theocratic dictatorship posing under the guise of a democratically elected government.
Knowing what we know now, does anyone here REALLY think these guys won the elections in 2000? or 2004? They're an illegitimate government that abused their power from Day 1 (a bloodless coup occurred in 2000 and was sanctioned by the highest court in the land). They've carved up the constitution and bill of rights and taken the country formerly known as the united states and remade it into the federal theocracy of the religious right.
Everyone here keeps hoping and planning for 2006. Why? Bush already got authorization from Gestapo Gonzalez to hold off (indefinitely) the 2004 elections if OBL and AQ attacked. Well, guess who showed up - almost as if on queue - during the 2004 elections? Guess who's rattling his sabres as the 2006 elections revv-up? Can any of you still sit there and say "this is just a coincidence?"
Look - rove and the bushies now have complete control of the government: they control the congress; they control the executive branch; they're using the military as a political arm; they control many if not the majority of the governorships; they've loaded the supreme court.
All the pieces are in place for them to eliminate the 2006 elections when OBL attacks (anyone betting that we don't see an escalation of terror-talk and "chatter" and AQ sightings between now and november? didn't think so).
Wake-up america - letters and voting won't help - they haven't made a difference yet and won't in the future... the sickness which ails this country needs stronger medicine...