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I wish I could believe that prosecutions were possible or even likely. Over the last decade or so I have so utterly lost faith in the people of this nation to do the right thing that I have not even the slightest hint of a thought of a possibility that it is even remotely plausible.
Twirl a shiny thing in front of us and we'll forget what we were doing. Scare us with a big bad boogey man and we'll bury our heads and decide we'll get back to this later, maybe.
I never used to consider myself cynical.The election was a nice change from the usual dissapointments but it was not the alpha and omega of the solutions to our problems. Not by a long shot.
