"... it's a bleak, dispiriting prospect for sure... in America now it seems one must fall in line with either the god and guns party or the government cures all ills party... in short, you must choose either way an irrational, ideologically driven populism that slavishly serves the intemperate interests of its leaders... I suppose if one wanted to attempt a species of optimism one could imagine a scenario where the democrats fail so spectacularly that it opens the door for a new kind of republican, one who can, say, call Limbaugh the ass that he is and
still have a chance of getting elected... but I tend to believe that optimism is just what politicians call willful ignorance..."
