I know that this may come to surprise to some of us...

[MrScorpio]

But America is NOT a liberal country.

Frankly, it's NEVER been a liberal country and I can pretty much guarantee that it won't be a liberal country in any of our lifetimes.

Pretty much every progressive move that America has made throughout its existence has come about because of one of three reasons:

- Correction of a gross oversight

- Correcting of a rightward turn gone horribly wrong

- Somebody figured that they could make some money out of it

If America hasn't found a reason to go left, based on one of those three choices, then you can bet dollars to donuts, that it will go right.

Right is the default position in this country, along with reactionary and self-indulgent and spiced with a collective memory that's shorter than that of a two-day old puppy. You can forget appealing to American's reasoning that we're better off being a social-democracy like much of Europe. Let's face it, these are people who can't even figure out that English and Spanish are both European languages that are spoken on this side of the pond, not 'Murikan and Mexikin. So it's pretty easy for them to divorce the roads that they drive on and the clean water that they drink from the taxes that they need to pay to keep them drivable and drinkable.

So, it really is no surprise that the GOP made gains...

The American people weren't forced to reject them and they ALWAYS have to be forced to reject Republicans, they're the Golden Boys and BMOCs. Those guys make them feel good.


US? We're the Nerds... Although they may need the nerds to figure out how to fix all the problems that are created by the arrogant and incompetent Golden Boys, they'll never, ever love us.

We remind them too much that they have to face responsibility from time to time.


And responsibility is rarely ever fun or self-indulgent.