The tide has turned, but it's going to leave a lot of garbage on the beach [View All]

Before I get started, let me give a shout out to Redstone and his excellent post about the turning tide (and the ensuing thread). Redstone, you write the best posts.

I'm happy that people are waking up. Really happy, because I'm tired of trying to explain to people that, in fact, up is not down.

BUT, after the tide's gone out, things will be different in some good ways (couple of sane people calling the shots, maybe?), but the surge's effects will still be with us. I mean things like RepubliPods throughout the governmental bureaucracy, new regulations to make life easier for corporations and harder for the rest of us, restructured agencies and procedures (e.g., Foreign Service promotions depending more on PR abilities -- thanks a bunch, Karen), an emptied Treasury, a weakened military short on materiel, the long-lasting legacy of military deaths and woundings, a shredded Bill of Rights, the same old wimpy Dems (with a few notable exceptions) trying to make nice with the thugs, and the VRWC still well-funded and in place, watching for its first opportunity to throw shit.

Don't want to be negative, but when we prevail, what then? Bush and his heinous gang have damn near destroyed this country. Not being young, I wonder if I'll see the beauty of the ideals enshrined in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence prevail again before I die. At this point, that sounds like a ridiculously romantic notion.