"If we do not change our direction ...

...we are likely to end up where we are headed."  Chinese Proverb

(@MotivationalQuotes)

The Republicans would have us believe that the U.S. needs to
change back to the ways of George W. Bush: preemptive war;
"detained" without charges or trial because "the good guys"say it's
needed; increasingly less taxes for the rich, while the working
poor pay more and more for their Government's military and
security expenditures, which only benefit the rich; the continual
reduction of public lands and public services so the rich can
increase their ownership and charge what they want ... etc.,
ad nauseum. The American public, or so we are told by the
mainstream media (which BTW is and has been conservative,
not the "liberal media" gullible Americans have been spoon
fed since Reagan), wants the Government to move more to
the right, even to have it undue the miniscule changes of the
past two years. Bush, (whose timing of release of his self-
serving book was excellent,right as the Republicans fulfilled
months of media predictions that they would take back the
House of Representatives and significantly gain in the Senate),
is now considered more popular than Obama and "Tea Party"
right-wingers are being pumped up for the White House.

Ironically, the direction the U.S. has been heading for the
past 10 years has been more and more away from democracy
and more and more towards totalitarianism at the same time
that its rhetoric about democracy and "freedom" has been
greater than ever. As a recent alternative newscast concluded,
the message the U.S. is sending to the world is, "Do as I say,
not as I do."