[af_vet_rr]

The Republicans and Dems are betting they can bird-dog us with minor social issues (I don't want my kid reading that book in school!), while the grand plan of totally screwing over the American middle class falls into place. I'm betting they're right.

As a nation, we are easily distracted. You or I could start a thread about how Congress wants to take something out of the Constitution without our approval, or about how the government is getting too big and too powerful. You'll have a thread of about 50-100 responses, with about two dozen posters at the most.

On the other hand, if you or I post a thread about Tom Cruise saying one little thing bad about Bush or the GOP, you'll have a thread with a 1000 plus responses in a few hours, with hundreds of posters fuming.

I've been seeing this on FR over the past year or so, and it stuns me that threads that should really get Conservatives riled up don't, and meanwhile threads about some airhead shooting his mouth off get everybody foaming at the mouth.

[Wolfie]

You should have been here when Clinton was President. It was a much different atmosphere.