It's rather frightening and disturbing...

...to know that you live in the same country with folks that support the policies of George W Bush and Dick Cheney. As the latest polls suggest, 77% of Republicans think we need experience more than change in the next election. How else are we supposed to read that except that 77% of the Republicans must be comfortable with the status quo and the policies of George W Bush? Can this be for real?

Can they really support the torture, the lies, the spying, the incompetence, the profligacy, the arrogance, the disrespect for our Constitution? Do they truly believe that more taxcuts are in order? Do they truly believe that our economy is doing great? Just how important is $3 trillion dollars more in debt? Do they truly believe it does not matter?

It is frightening and disturbing to think about how far we have sunk as a nation? It is all so easy to blame everything on 9/11. How can any American rest comfortably with such ill-informed citizens in our midst? Are we supposed to believe they are ignorant of what is going on? Are we supposed to work with these types of criminals in a bi-partisan way? It is all so mind-boggling and confusing.

How can we call 77% of Republicans "criminals"? Isn't it that they simply have different political beliefs than we? It cannot be true that every other person I pass on the street may be so alien to what I have been taught all my life? They do not really believe in torture. They do not really believe that the President is above the law. They do not really believe that Americans should be spied upon with reason or warrant. They do not really believe our Constitution is just a piece of paper and our security trumps all those petty liberal rationalizations. Or do they...?

and peices and do not understand what is really happening.. and if they are still doing ok, they might not care what the rest of the country is doing... I've tried to get so many people to understand that politics is not boring and is essential to the very lives we live, the pay we bring home, the hours we work, the safety of our foods, products, and roads. Everything WE are is determined by the people working for us. Too many people have been put off by shitty choices in politicians and by people telling them politics is boring.

uncle, a very educated man, made a slur in an e-mail about Gore and the internet crap again. I finally just e-mailed him the snopes rebuttal to that smear. He would never, ever say he was wrong, but blathered on about something else. He watches Fox. All of the asides about Fox, they are dangerous if they are spewing false or omitting facts. He truly does not understand what is really happening..Sad.

in a Republican's mind right now might represent
coalition destroying positions on reproductive rights,
immigration, or other social conservative hot buttons.

Experience suggests competency, perhaps the republic's are saying
that all they need is a pol who doesn't pee on the constitution or pet buzz cuts in public and they are good to go. They are being prepped to accept Hillary by their opinion makers, because they are authoritarian tools and the elites are ready to welcome their new martian overlords.

We can herd the wingers to Utah and give them their own country, where they will quickly die.

It's this same type of cognitive dissonance that helps the establishment at large condition the public mind into not perceiving reality for what it is ... which results in the herd policing itself re: crucial views i.e. "conspiracies," ulterior motives and agendas packaged and sold specifically for the public mind's consumption so many will hold to establishment friendly beliefs. This equates with the desired aim: less "democratic interference."