...and the bottom line ladies and gentlemen is that we Americans can bitch and complain about this administration and it's policies and it's members but the responsibility for success or failure of this country to live up to it's ideals falls on the shoulders of the
electorate; who, time and time again, year in and year out - fail to come to the plate. We ignore reality, buy into pseudo-patriotic bullshit slogans, DO NOT do our political homework, tear into issues of no substance that are designed to be misleading - and end up electing another set of assholes that are just as bad as the ones we are getting rid of. We do this at the local, the state and the national level - every stinking year, while we sit on our bar stools,
down another pint and shout about how great this American country is.
I am a veteran and I'm sick and tired of calling this shit that we have here a democracy - it is not a democracy any more, rather, it is a corporatocracy - government run for, by and about big business and those connected to it. Hey, next round's on me, and while we're drinkin' you can sit and tell me why this Iraq invasion is so important for securing America's freedom; oh, and you can also tell me why (if that is so) you are not in military uniform - patriot.