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What will forever puzzle me is how we as a society have become so weak and stupid, that we can no longer see the likes of Hillary and her ilk...for what they are.

I wrote a long, long response to your comment but abandoned it because it just became too burdensome. Boiled down it amounts to three things: domination of the popular culture -- everything from Che Guevara T-shirts, popular music and late-night comedy shows -- all with a relentlessly liberal point of view; and,

Domination of the education system, using a preferential hiring system to make certain only one point of view is available to indoctrinate students, and;

Domination of the mainstream news media to twist and fashion the day's news into a liberal-progressive-socialist single-message propaganda campaign.

It was frightening to me last week to hear how CNN flying monkeys framed the Democrat recess appointment strategy. They were keeping Congress in session, we were told, to circumvent the sneaky, evil Republican Bush from pulling a "fast one" on the American people. The fact that the President's recess appointment power is in the Constitution was either unknown to the snotty little blond talking head, or of no consequence.

This is getting long again but I forgot to mention one thing: none of this would have been possible without the total dumbing-down of American education. It was brought about by the rise of the know-nothing "education" departments in university teacher curricula; unions that only care about teacher pay increases, reduced workloads, more perks and longer vacations; and certain "parents" that never grew up themselves.

"I wrote a long, long response to your comment but abandoned it because it just became too burdensome."

I'm sure that I would have enjoyed it.

"Domination of the education system, using a preferential hiring system to make certain only one point of view is available to indoctrinate students."

This certainly applies to our universities from what I've seen. It seems that professors and administrators with conservative viewpoints are screened-out. While our primary and secondary public schools are also now nothing but indoctrination pens, I think that problem can be traced back to when Jimmy Carter (I swear Nikita Kruschev would have been a less destructive President) created the Dept. of Education to effectively give the teachers union a cabinet post. The union as you know has gone extreme left, and they have throughly politisized curriculums from K through 12.

"It was frightening to me last week to hear how CNN flying monkeys framed the Democrat recess appointment strategy. They were keeping Congress in session, we were told, to circumvent the sneaky, evil Republican Bush from pulling a "fast one" on the American people. The fact that the President's recess appointment power is in the Constitution was either unknown to the snotty little blond talking head, or of no consequence."

With seemingly no one to call them on it. I don't believe a single Republican commented on it. I also found it frightening. I think I would find the disco scene from Rowan & Martins "Laugh-In" more objective than modern MSM newscasts.

It vexes me however, that MSM news now being such naked and transparent propaganda (the better examples of which could be penned by a John Stewart Service and Solomon Adler at the kitchen table of their ChungKing residence),that it should be easily recognized by more people. Most modern agitprop is the clumsy variety that one might expect from some a high school newspaper.

I was cured of my own leftism (inculcated by a leftist family environment, and peer influence) back in the 70's when I read The Gulag Archepelago, and observed China's Cultural Revolution and the Kampuchean horror. After that the rantings of the "Chicago Seven," Huey Newton and their ilk which I had previously found so seductive sounded pretty tinny. Perhaps I just answered my own question in that as once a part of the left, the format of their BS is more recognizable to me.