There's something happening to the Democratic Party...

[JDPriestly]

59. woo me with science, you are addressing the national security state --

the bureaucracy within our government that continues to make recommendations and decisions about "national security" whether the president is a D or an R and the corporate, military-industrial complex in our nation that keeps that bureaucracy going.

That bureaucracy is like the little energy bunnies we used to see on TV. They just keep going on their path, indulging in paranoid, sci-fi fantasies and playing with their killer toys and secret pens.

Presidents indulge these guys. They are too insane and too crazy to cross up. And there is nothing any president can do to stop them. They just propel themselves forward against whatever crazy conspiracy or nutty foreign power they imagine or sometimes really see.

What to do about them? I don't know. Just live our lives in the peaceful ways in which we would live them whether or not they existed, I suppose. They are like rats and other vermin. Beyond keeping them out of your house, making sure you don't get bitten by them and protecting your food supply from them, there is not much you can do about them unless your whole community decides to hire a Pied Piper or get them to leave some other way.

Sooner or later, Americans are going to get sick of having their e-mails and Facebook postings and other internet and telephone activity recorded and read -- or the country will go broke trying to pay these guys' salaries and keeping up their toys. Until that happens, we just have to live with their annoying presence.

As long as they stay out of site, keep their dirt and odors out of our homes and don't trip us as we climb up the stairs, we will just have to accept their presence.

As you say, you don't vote or not vote for a candidate or a party because of those guys. Neither party is going to cross them.