Reply #20: I feel like I went to sleep in 2000

[ninkasi]

and woke up in 2001 in another country, in an altogether different universe. I simply cannot get my mind accustomed to the U.S. being a country which attacks other countries without provocation, a nation which uses torture, and warrant-less searches, and holding people indefinitely without charges. If somebody had told me in the summer of 2000 that our country would be doing all of this, I would have doubted their sanity.

I would never have thought that not only would the government be committing all of these illegal and immoral acts, but that even when those acts were brought to the citizen's attention, there would be nothing done, except the tepid scoldings of a few people. The brave ones...the Feingolds, and the Kennedys, and the Boxers, are all criticized for their cries to hold Bush and his administration accountable for America's descent into Hell.

For our country to be betrayed by all branches of government, and almost all members of the press, is something I still have a problem accepting. FDR was president when I was born. I was born in a free and democratic country, and it makes me sad to realize that I might not die in one.