I think God will come soon and sort it all out.
Lock the thread now Feck.
Actually, I beleive we are in a exceptionally dark period of history as far as media control and propoganda goes. The primary reason for this as I see it is the effect of special interest groups in Washington especially the really big ones like the Drug companies, Insurance companies, and oil and banking although the majority stockholder list of the last two are pretty much the same. But we are also at the apex of the TV age. Our attention span is very short and we are easily distracted. Throw a few cool movies about good vs evil out there, launch a smear campaign against a people or country (Iran currently), and strut around like Shane in the wild, wild west. Reagan was the all time master of this. Bush is a dim shadow. But as aresult of the consistent erosion of civil liberties we are creeping further and further away from a "free" country.
I am a firm beleiver in the two/multi-party system but I think the republican party has veered way to far to the right and is now in facist territory. I think McCain and Huckabee are "old style republicans. Meanwhile, the democrats have conducted their affairs from a stance of fear. "Oh my God. We might loose an election!" and so they fail to lead. The flipping and flopping leaves them looking like what they are, politicians. We need some strong leaders with traditional party values to emerge and I am not seeing them on either side. Republicans used to be fiscally conservative. Now they spend us into the poor house and it was Clinton who paid down the debt. Bush has blown it up again.
Democrats used be the champions of social morals. Now they have rejected change/adjustment to the welfare system for so long that IT has become a major problem. And so forth.
I will vote for the person I think is most likely to bring about campaign finance reform.