We are at war. You can pretend we can be one country again, but we can't.

[Enrique]

152. the other side needs this, we don't

I hear the RW propagandists pounding into their rubes over and over how there can be no common ground with our side, how the ideological gulf is too wide. That's why they have to exaggerate how liberal Obama is, that's why they studiously ignore all the things Obama agrees with them on.

It makes perfect sense coming from them. We have a winning case, if middle-class and working class and poor people think straight, many of them will conclude that Democratic party has better policies for them. Therefore the propaganda masters have to keep people from thinking straight, they have to blow everything up into an epic battle between good and evil.

But we don't need that. There is little danger that any of us is going to look at today's GOP and say, "those people make a good point!"

So we have the ability to look at this Supreme Court decision and acknowledge the reality that the very conservative John Roberts can side with us once in a while. The gap is not unbridgeable.