I have to admit...I am struggling. The current political climate is causing some soul-searching....

[nolabear]

15. I think you're witnessing the dissolution of the party.

I understand the feelings. It's horrifying. I think you have to remember exactly what you know--that there are many layers to this, that some terribly scary people are involved but there are a whole lot of just ordinary people who are trying to figure out their lives. I disagree with a lot of them but sympathize with their struggle and their fear. It's the controlling, hypocritical, powermongerers in the leadership that infuriate me, and the willfully ignorant that frustrate me, but I do hold onto the hope that enough of us will keep the country going long enough for some benefits to kick in and deceptions to be revealed, and it'll get better.

I don't know about you but I see the next generation as very different, with far different attitudes about things, and if the hyperGOP don't just plain destroy the economic base by pillaging the whole country they will manage things very, very differently.