Reply #32: America itself is dying.

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The country's now effectively ungovernable through democratic means - the GOP, Lieberman and the conservadems just ensured that absolutely no legislation of democratic (small-D) substance can get through the Senate. Plutocratic, corporate, authoritarian legislation? That's a different matter.

They're going to continue to obstruct meaningful change, things will continue to deteriorate in the country, eventually, people will get pissed off enough to take matters into their own hands, and the first and largest group to do that will be the teabaggers.

The only way I see this ending is through a charismatic right-winger with a funny moustache promising to make it all better if we just sign over all power to him. And to quote Star Wars, democracy will die with thunderous applause.