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The signs of what kind of President George W. Bush would be (meaningless figurehead), and the political agenda that was to be put in place by his administration (Project for a New American Century) were on the wall in 2000. We were just too naive to see them for what they were.
It would have taken some very insightful and courageous members of the media to bring these facts to the public consciousness.
We're a nation of sheep; and worse than that, we don't even realize when we're being fleeced. Democracy requires an intelligent, well-informed, and activist populace to function "correctly." Otherwise it's just a vehicle for special interests to exploit the general public.
