Reply #10: Thanks for your thoughtful post... [View All]

...and it seems that many HAVE given up and plan to simply accept what happens to their party and country. Perhaps many of the changes have been so gradual that some have not noticed them or think they can be changed BACK with their side in power?

I don't believe in coincidence theories. And it's no coincidence that factions in both parties are working FOR corporations and against those who want them to be made accountable. These same factions support bankrupcy bills, 'tort reform' and are rabidly anti-union and worker's rights. They both have nice, fluffy rhetoric to make Americans believe they're on the same side...but the reality on the ground contradicts their very words.

The Right and the RWing of the Democratic party can no longer defend their illegal war(s)...so they've resorted to using the time-honored tactics of dividing the nation into 'patriots' and those who 'hate America'. They certainly can't admit that they fighting the 'war on terrorism'...not for the American people or their safety and security...but for lust of power and corporate greed. How many Americans would support these 'wars' if they knew the whole truth? The answer is few...which is why the Neocons and Neodems think of themselves as patriotic when they lie for the sake of 'unity'.

Other posters have stated that America has been through this before. But I submit that America has never been subjected to this type of tyranny and corruption. Never before has a president been 'given' so much power and the ability to work outside the rule of law and Constitutional checks and balances. This country is under the control of a few individuals and their corporate media. Their success is dependent on the cooperation of enough Democrats to make it appear 'bipartisan' in nature.

Our country is falling...and it pisses me off that so many Americans can't or won't see it.