Reply #17: I'm pessimistic

[Jacobin]

In 2008, I see any progressive candidate for president drummed out by the mainstream media.

I see a contest between a neo-conservative republican and a democrat who supports the continuation of our insane foreign policy. No one wants to 'lose the war on terror', and so the democratic president will continue the slide into insanity started by the republicans, so they don't call the democrats 'weak'

That's about where we are in this country. Mindless, spineless, ignorant, sycophants worried only about power. We have few statesmen and those that remain are impotent and laughed at by the media talking heads, so their wisdom can be ignored.

Sorry about that Norway.

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