Two notes, and then I'm going to bed because I'm sick as hell (physically too, this time) and hacking up gobs of some substace that I can't identify and really don't want to from my lungs.

Gnostic Yevon--
You've got to remember that politics have changed a lot over even a hundred years. The ideas that are now considered old-fashioned anachronisms tht we hold simply because we always have were, in many cases, extremely radical ideas that no one would consider not so long ago. :D Of course, sometimes we come around full circle and start adopting some recycled version of what didn't work last time, as well. Really, as far as politics and history goes, in very many cases the only thing that changes is the technology.

Nothing will get accomplished until liberals stop seeing all conservatives as inbred, xenophobic, trigger happy, redneck warmongers,
Hey now--I am NOT inbred! My parents were only related by marriage.