Wow, how to begin on this. This country has ways of progressing to things you wouldn't expect, at a pace which is sluggish, but there also have been many things in my 46 yr old lifetime that have went backwards at the same time. I never thought I would see a time where stupidity is worn like a badge. 

How to know how this will shell out... One thing I will say, if progressive salesmanship doesn't improve drastically, and if we do not unite as the teabaggers did to demand what we voted for, my guess this will be the "moving backward" aspects of our lives and culture I mentioned earlier.                                                                                                                                   Damn Democrats.... we had all the tools we needed, except the spine.

"Life's rich demand creates supply in the hands of the power, the only vote that matters." --James Michael Stipe, from Begin the Begin.