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Republicans are stealing the country, robbing the national coffers, and letting people continue to die in a false war. Meanwhile the "opposition's" leaders are equivocating, dancing around the subject, and busying themselves with flag-burning amendments and criticism of video games. When they're not doing that, they're whining about what was "stolen" without thinking clearly about how to get it back. We're trapped in a drama that has an antagonist but no protagonist.

No matter how many times I repeat the incantation, "Republicans are evil," John McCain and others are not going to agree with me. They should, but they won't. My training tells me to concentrate on what I can do differently, since I can't change the other guy. What I, and others like me, can do differently is to demand that the Democratic Party stand for something meaningful - and that it do a much better job as the party of opposition. Failing that, I can do something else: I can try to force a change in that party's leadership, or take my support elsewhere.

Needless to say, I'm just one voice, but I plan to keep using it (at least part of the time) on what I think Democrats should do better or differently. I'll continue to slam them when I think they're betraying their own core values, for their distorted ideas about what's expedient. Will it help? I don't know. But I'm going to keep doing it.

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