You can make a pretty good argument that the outlook for the future of our Republic is less than rosy. Me? I'm an optimist. I still think the United States can command a leading economic, geopolitical and military position in this century. But you have to admit that a lot of the signs are bad. Huge swaths of the American electorate believe in angels and ufos, but can't name a single Supreme Court justice. Everybody has an opinion on Iraq, but I've noticed that the most boisterous supporters of the Bush foreign policy can't find Iraq on a map or name a single country that shares an Iraqi border. We're still wringing our hands over race, gender, and sexual orientation, and millions of Americans reject modern science in favor of Palestinian Iron Age creation mythologies. And of course, we fiddle while the planet burns.
The latest sign of a moribund republic? The Senate releases a report that basically comes out and says the Bush Administration lied the American people into a $3 trillion war, and the only pundit who really covers it is...Jon Stewart.
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