To me it is obvious that the rancor was connected to the American election.

We who were on the losing side of that thing felt
very strongly that George Bush was (and still is) destroying the United States of America. I don't know what can be done about that now that the thing has been decided for the next four years. Both sides were OVER THE TOP when it came to expressing their views everywhere---not only within Mudcat. The outcome was that important to us---and personally I still feel that way.

All that said and noted, in a Democracy, which might or might not be the best of all possible worlds, we re-group, lick the wounds, re-do the arguments to fit the realities--and bide some time. THEN, the campaign starts -- and that too-long-process, as some say, takes on momentum that many feel is so overly long and interminably boring. BUT it can lead, once in a long while, to a real revolution!! That, especially when the election is stolen by the Spreme Court of the land--- OR when the Roosevelt Revolution, which it truly was, destroyed the ROBBER BARONS and their gold-plated and greed-driven capitalistic steamrolling over the workers, the diabled and the poor of the nation. Nothing proves this fact more blatantly, emphatically and stridently than the actions of the current administration who seem so bent on reversing all advances that had equalized some few of the discrepancies between the rich and the poor here. Yes, in the USA they are destroying and/or diminishing the good and decent realities of life that made this sad country rather worth living in before--but not necessarilly now.

(But just wait...)

Art Thieme