[spinestein]

[When did all this begin?]

It began with Carl Marx and his Utopian ideas of big government taking care of everybody (free of charge).

The modern keepers of Marxism in the US lost their power in Congress in 1994 and since then have only one political plan; accuse conservatives/Republicans of being evil, and promise to save America from them if elected.

After Bush WON the White House in 2000 and again in 2004, they have only gone downhill and have no plans of reversing their direction anytime soon.

[commonguymd]

The way of the Whigs - we are witnessing history.

We need more than one party though. What party will emerge to fill the hole the democrats destruction creates is the question.

[penowa]

What I'm curious about is the whole mass hysteria thing that the election "mourning" is a part of, i.e., the reaction by a large segment of the public to the death of a total stranger with whom their only acquaintance has come from seeing the personality on the little box in their living room. The personality is mourned as though he/she was an intimate or close family member by coming together with throusands of strangers, building "alters" in some public place, etc.

This is not the same as paying one's respects to a public figure, but appears to me to be some sort of perversion of that ritual.