>I want to believe in a bright future. But its looking more and more like we're fucked. It will take a real shock and awe event to get people in this country together again, and I don't see that happening.
I think this is more true that I'd like it to be.
Unless we get back to having a population that buys into ideas expressed by the Founding Fathers and the limited form of government they instituted, we're going to eventually fragment and become Balkanized. If that happens, the invaders will have won.