It was meant to be our downfall, and you can blame the left.
I certainly blame the left, but I also blame the Silent Majority. We've been too silent for too long.
And add to that, the one issue people are threatening to sit out the November election and turn the country back over to the very people who put us in this position to begin with. I don't know which group I find more contemptible at this point.
I think the conservatives who plan to sit out an election are perhaps the more contemptible because they understand what's at stake but will do something stupid anyway by not voting.
The leftists have their own agenda and depend on conservatives to act this dumb; they haven't been proven wrong yet.