people will be happy so long as their cable tv pumps through and gas is in their car, and the McDonalds drive-thru is open... but hopefully, one day in my lifetime, more Nixon and more Humphrey and more Clinton and more Bush and More McCain will land people with no gasoline and no television and no police and no telephone and chaos... and then they can do some real thinking...
I've posted similar things here myself, actually. The bottom line is that under Bush we've gotten less free, less solvent and bogged down in places we shouldn't have even entered. But he just sort of accelerated the slow rot that's been developing in this country ever since the 1960's ended. I wouldn't completely lose hope just yet though. People just need some motivation to start caring, and if anything the emerging recession and other problems may do just that.
