[B-Chan]

With the right leadership, yes.

As it is — I doubt that anything short of a terrorist you-know-what going off in some major city is going to wake the country up to the hard truth.

God forbid, of course.

[vanmorrison]

The sad but indisputable truth is that there is a hard-core element of the American community that is so f**cked up that they wouldn't even "wake up" if a nuclear bomb were dropped right on top of their heads. Shouldn't the crashing down of the Twin Towers qualify as a pretty stark wake up call? Then consider that John Effin Kerry polls better than Bush in New York and New Jersey, and that the most repugnant reptile in the US Senate is the junior Senator from New York. There is, indeed, an irredeemable bunch of absolutely stupid asses, that is, Democrats, that this country is burdened with who may wind up being the death of us all.