Very few care, but hopefully it's an important few who will keep bearing witness, and maybe let others see what's happening.  I often hear this song in my head these days, and while the exact events are a bit different now, the main themes ring true, I think.  In the end, it's my belief that the silent Dems who are afraid to criticize this administration are 'the greatest single weapon working against the US'.  Which makes the conversations about a possible Romney win creating a situation in which Dems really might want to fight back loud and clear, though it sure ain't a given.

It is insanely frustrating to be instructed here in such calm and left-brain only terms how we are truly a centrist nation, which meaning has long ago evaporated, I think.  Sometimes I try to imagine why so many here go bat-shit crazy over Glenn Greenwald and Chomsky and god knows which others, and all I can think is that they sincerely have to deflect the truths they bring to the discussions.  If a person can only psychically allow X amount of small criticisms of Obama or Dems, then it would follow that those who spotlight eggregious unConstitutional or depraved and indifferent acts are the messengers who should be shot.

You forgot that the same people who will be coming along to tell us those things will also say that if we've done nothing wrong, we don't have to worry.  And that is so incredibly unimaginative I can barely stand it.  Haven't they been reading about how anyone who pushes back is targeted by the fbi and homeland security, get on no-fly and watch lists?  Maybe they don't give a fig because they know they will always stay indoors and off the street and off the Washington Mall in safety, or ever write any diaries in opposition to the administration, thus find comfort in the knowledge that the other guys would be worse. 

Your quip about the accusations that 'your betrayal will inevitably lead to the nation's doom':  it was only yesterday when Cho connected the dots for us that I even realized how much it got under the skin of some here that DanK and I have decided we can't vote for Obama; I can't get my mind around what force that seems to have.  Likewise, in a way, when kgb asserted I'd been arguing full-throatedly against this WAR IN LIBYA, I couldn't even remember doing so, though he must have been right; too much of the early stuff just didn't smell right,,,once again.

Anyway, I'm glad as hell you care, and a few others here, and many Fair Witnesses and journalists and bloggers out in the world.  And yep, I include Amy and Sy Hersh and even Marcy Wheeler and the other favorite target here: Jane Hamsher.  She wrote from the courthouse yesterday where she'd accompanied Manning's friend David House for his appearance before the grand jury, and they ran into a friend of freaking Lyndie England, who appearing before a different GJ.  She and Dan Choi asked the friend to get get a coffee with them, probably to find whassup with that, and the guards prevented them leaving the courthouse.  "These are wikileaks people" the guards said, and it wasn't until an FBI agent came that the friend was permitted to leave, but not Jane and Dan with her/him (I've forgotten which).  This nation is getting so fucked.  All must be controlled.

Anyway, to me, it's 'Seven O'clock News, Silent Night'.  In spades.  Not to pile more on, dear.  ;o)