Reply #27: All that evil needs to succeed is for the good to do nothing. [View All]

[Mechatanketra]

Soon it will shrink down to the size of a "dragon fly" and we will put it in a jar with holes on the lid and put in the history books as a very clever illusion by some wickedly crooked men who sought to make America believe that ugly, evil people are the majority here.

I think not. Evil people may not be the majority here ... but the willfully ignorant, people who refuse to acknowledge any evil in the nation precisely because it reflects badly on the nation, are.

That's why with every single issue that ought to be a slam dunk (the WMD lies, the Plame leak, "Operation Ignore" and the road to 9/11, endemic vote-fixing) it's been an uphill battle to get Democrats to pay attention, let alone independents and/or Republican sympathizers ... the fact that something would be A Bad Thing is reason enough for people to consider it nigh-impossible.

That's why Nixon got pardoned instead of jailed. It's why Reagan is remembered as a beloved figure instead of hung as a traitor. And it's why Bush is sitting in a second term. People in this country just don't know how to be outraged, or at least, what to do about it.