Reply #25: I hope your are correct B. McToots. I hope folks are waking up, and

[54anickel]

that somehow we are actually a silent (more likely a silenced) majority. I guess I'm just not seeing it here in my neck of the woods (WI, that once great bastion of progressives is quickly being overrun by the Newt-type Republicans and "fundies"). It's getting scary around here. While I have been able to turn once strong Bush supporters around on Bush, they still hang on to their "hatred" of Democrats and what they call "Lib-a-rils".

In a way, the waking of couch potatoes scares me. Look at what has been filling their noodles all these years while they were lounging in front of that "idgit box". Isn't that how we got stuck with the Contract on America to begin with? Now we have couch AND pew potatoes.

I will continue to seek out signs of an optimistic awakening. There are glimmers here and there on the "internets", hopefully they will make their way more and more into the mainstream.

But that's just me.
The Eternal Pessimist striving to become an Optimist ;-)