quite, mister D

I often find myself wondering just how the Democratic party would have dealt with the situations we've faced over the last few years; the United States is a little cursed in that both major political parties are right wing, the aforementioned somewhat less so than the Republicans perhaps, but very conservative nonetheless by most Old World standards.

I love America dearly, but with a government that takes every possible opportunity to make enemies of the planet, I can only look at my passport and feel a measure of disappointment. The optimist inside urges me to look toward better days, but what I feel deep down, is that the walls have long since begun to crack; there's so much distrust, adolescent passion and sheer hatred, whether masked in politics or readily apparent, boiling around me that I feel foolish in my own optimism; what can they do but come crashing down?

Right now would be as appropriate a time as any for some good old deus ex...