We don't need no stinkin' list I'm catching up on my reading and I guess some kind of year end consideration comes naturally from that. I can't seem to find the link to that post about what your list says about you. I've thought about it and it seems that the whole year kinda comes down to what I have to say here because it says so much about us.

It has been a bad year for progressive democracy here in the United States. I mean we still exert the same elective forces as before, it's just that we don't seem to be using them in a just, forward thinking manner. We have, by not recalling some officials (elected and otherwise), endorsed practices far outside of what it means to be American.

It would be reasonable to say that citizen media is still in its infancy but it doesn't deserve a walk on not being able to correctly address these issues. I don't mean partisan, Lefty correctly. I mean morally upright and freedom loving correctly. I've always thought of that cliche of a certain undistilled clarity coming from the ordinary citizen. It doesn't seem like citizen media has helped at all with the issues of torture and Big Brother. If the elements of directness and immediacy so touted for this information structure were working as stated then they would have overwhelmed the totalitarian posturing by BushCo.

At some time, hopefully in the next year, we'll have to look back and say we weren't at our best: We'll just have to do better.  ¶ 12/31/2005 10:02:00 PM