All this may just be a long-winded way of saying that 9/11 changed everything. But it's still hard to escape the conclusion that the American people have had, generally speaking, plenty of opportunities to learn the filthy truth about this administration and this war -- that is, if they were actually interested in the truth, which many of them (up to 51%, judging from the last election) apparently are not.I'm afraid it has come to this. 51% of the American people have proven that they are not interested in the truth. They are not interested in sacrifice. They are not interested in working with the international community to solve problems. They are perfectly content to see America turn into a theocratic gated community, kneeling before their idiot messiah, where personal wealth is a sign of God's love and individual poverty is a sign of God's disapproval, and personal sacrifice is something that poor people do.What the health of the Republic requires, in other words, may not be a new crop of leakers and whistleblowers, or a fresh young generation of Woodwards and Bernsteins -- or even a more independent, aggressive media. What it may need is a new population (or half of a population, anyway), one that hasn't been stupified or brainwashed into blind submission, that won't look upon sadistic corruption and call it patriotism, and that will refuse to trade the Bill of Rights for a plastic Jesus and a wholly false sense of security.
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