I've heard from friends and pundits of horrid Thanksgivings where ignorant Republicans gloat over Bush's victory in front of their Democratic relatives, knowing that we believe that this was the most important election in our lifetime. We lost. We lost, didn't we. One of my friends was in charge of the Coordinated Kerry campaign in our legislative district. He's 25 or so, so a young person. When he went to his mother's for Thanksgiving, his aunt mocked him. More family values.

If we had won, we would not have gloated. We would have rejoiced in a world suddenly gone rational again. These Republicans will never take responsibility. When it turns out that Bush is a genocidal monster, they willl still have no responsibility. They will have made no mistake.

The media is completely controlled. There will be no salvation there. The government now enforces a visa requirement to keep foreign journalists out.