I have been art of an America convinced of its superoirority and that of its values for mny years, when younger. The reason, at bottom, was that I really believed our Grand Experiment was still a breakthrough, and the COnsittution still a leading-edge document. I believed it miught be possible to have a democracy, or at least democratic practices.

And Ibelieve the Bush machine is quite the opposite. One single point of rep[resentative proof is his willignness to adulterate the enlightenment that produced the Consittution and use it to enforce a divisive moralistic opinion which has no business in law -- a willignness which puts the whole thrust and purpose of the Consittution on the block , for the sake of petty gains.

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