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• Tuesday, January 20, 2009 06:25 AM

  Joy, joy!

  It's a new era. All hail the onset of the glorious Obama regime. FISA? Torture? Holding the Bush Administration accountable for war crimes? Obama's broken promises? How gauche of me to mention them!

  I slept through 9/11 (I was in surgery that day), and when I woke up the country seemed to have gone insane - particularly the media. I feel the same way now. There's madness in the air, and I for one am very troubled by it.

  So troubled, in fact, that on my own journal I've instituted a filter to screen my political posts from everyone except a limited list of friends. It has been made abundantly clear to me that dissent just became far less "acceptable" under the new regime, and that many of my friends and acquaintances who happily accepted my criticisms of the Bush Administration find any critique of Obama to be absolute and unforgivable heresy.

  It disturbs me to see so many of my progressive Democratic friends acting in the exact same way as Bush supporters did for so many years - demanding unquestioning obedience to the party line. It disturbs me that in America under a supposedly more liberal and progressive leader, I feel forced to hide my political thoughts. But that's the reality of America today.

  I think you've gone insane again, America. Maybe you always were insane. Or maybe it's just the media, indulging in their usual over-the-top orgy of propaganda; I don't know.

  But I don't like it. I don't trust you, America. And in another four to eight years, I'm terribly afraid that things will be even worse.

  —Peter Maranci Read Peter Maranci's other letters
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