I cannot help but look at it that way. Plus, Bush is bringing in new converts. I am not happy with some things he has done - caving on the education bill is one....but when I think of Al Gore as President I thank God for GWB.
That's exactly how the Insiders want you to feel. It's like hating the thought of a straight-jacket so much, that you're thankful for the handcuffs. In the process, they want you to give up on the idea of liberation. When the time is right, the Insiders will sell GWB as the straight-jacket and someone else as the handcuffs. Liberation, however, is absolutely out of the question. Unless, of course, you're prepared to take the risk of travelling down the road our Forefathers did.
After years of trying to get relief by working through the colonial legislature, petitioning the king and agitating through civil disobedience, they resigned themselve to declare this:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I don't think we're quite there yet and I would be loathe to let loose the first salvo, but we're not as far off as one might think. It all depends on how fast things move. The frogs have almost drifted off to sleep, time to crank up the kettle. Who will wake up in time?