Re:Asshats (Score 1)

However, when someone has done quite as much as Bush and the Neocons have, supposedly in your names, mere apathetic inaction isn't enough. The American people have to either swiftly and pro-actively either make it clear that you disapprove of his actions, or be condemned to history as supporting him.

I don't know about you, but in a country of 300 million people, do you think you can build that kind of effective consensus, do you think that there's that kind of high political awareness/motivation? I think it would be just academic daydreaming to say "Americans have to do this" or "Americans have to do that". Most Americans are your typical average person who is more in tune with local community events, wants to live a fulfilling life, have good friends, work hard at whatever job/career they have, and enjoy peace and security. And basically, with those set of values, the typical American has to choose, at their local electoral level, a candidate that is more or less palatable to them. And more often than not, in many parts of the US, the candidate who is more palatable to them, who has the same set of core values as them, has the same agenda as them, have proven to be from the GOP rather than from the Dems. It's less a matter of the Dems saying "oh deary me" and more a case of highly opinionated Dems failing to connect with their electorate - although that has changed with the recent election.