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...but I guess that's why I'm a system administrator and not Tim Hibbetts (KATU political analyst/pollster). I may be ashamed of Oregonians, but I'm actually afraid for the future of this country now. It's not just Bush II; if it were just about his obsession with finishing the job daddy didn't, no matter how screwed up a mess he made of it, we could probably recover from that. If it were just a couple of Bible Belt states writing religious bigotry into their constitutions, well, no one really expects different of them --- there've always been other places people could go where people still believed in freedom. If the police state mentality was reversed before it became entrenched in the system, we would remember this time as an aberration of the time as we do the McCarthy era.
But the sum total of everything means that everything that America stands for is being destroyed. We may be the most free nation on the planet, but every day, that says less and less, and I suspect in my lifetime, it will no longer be true. And with no other power to challenge us, to keep us from going too far, that is frightening indeed.
Posted by abatie at November 2, 2004 10:53 PM