Nobody cares that the Founding Fathers founded a Republic, though, anymore…(sigh).....

And that’s what DEMOCRACY is illusive and abstract.

Perfect.  Is it not “Democracy, Inc.” which is dropping Hellfire (missiles) onto remote Pakistani villages, in the name of “freedom”, or, possibly, “women’s liberation”?  Was it not the same ideology which excused and justified last month’s Guernica operation on the Gaza strip, where new urban counterinsurgency weapons were tested in “real-time”?  This is what we’ve come to, as we celebrate the lame, empty election of an African-American to the presidency, a leader who already has made it clear he will continue the kidnapping, torture and murder of anyone deemed a security threat (except not at the public relations liability, Guantanamo, and not by Americans, who will revert to “observer” status in foreign interrogation dungeons).

Awesome. People have to remember that every war or even dictatorship were put up with the pretext that what they were doing was for the good of the people. Every dictator is popular, and one has to paint an atrocious movement as good.
That’s the same thing when politicians talk about the democratization of X, the means don’t justify the end (we didn’t even accomplish the end).