Yes, yes yes and again yes! I agree with all of that stuff. but... but... dammit!

How informed do you have to be to realize that the only people the Republicans are doing any favors for these days are moneybags and harum-scarum snake-monkeys? I mean, tax cut? I certainly haven't seen it! So, mleh to those buggers.

Maybe it's just that I have more faith in people in general. That basically, I don't think, for the most part, that people are wilfully ignorant, but rather that they have enough on their plate just managing their own little life-worlds...

Also, I've seen this guy speak, and he's got some serious mojo... and he's not even a brilliant speaker. (I'm trying to be unstarred, here.) So, basically, I think that if I go talk to my neighbors and my friends and family and say: hey, this Howard Dean guy is pretty groovy, check him out: I think that THAT has a lot more weight than whatever some people might be seeing on the television, you know? Now imagine 500,000 people doing that... So, I'm basically thinking that maybe things aren't as hopeless as they might seem...

But then again, maybe I'm a hopeless optimist, who reads too many damn books. If so, that makes me sad... because, hell, I'd settle for a ruling president and party that wasn't so transparently incompetent and narrow-minded.