These cats and kittens who say the world might be a better place if he weren't putting his best years and family on the line each day need to stop trying to campaign for something they will surely do no better job of, if elected, themselves.
He was looking at a completely different world in 2007-2008. And so are you.
I support the Wikileaks effort as a planetary citizen, but for my nationalist leanings, barbaric as they might be, well, you'd be hard-pressed to find an authoritative Democrat in Congress with access to national security directives who won't feel the same way.
The cult of personality is partially to blame.
Let's go to the movies. Let's talk about heroes.
Since I was old enough to visualize a screen, I have been absorbing stories about Lone Gunmen. They are the types of heroes who, like Robin Hood, attempt to defeat pure evil by themselves.
They are rebels without causes. They are Zoros, marked. They are Lone Rangers. Sometimes they have sidekicks. Tontoes. Robbins. Robots for Will Robinsons. They are Btuch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They are Bonnie and Clyde.
And guess what, they all fought the law, and the law wins. Or, at least, next week's episode is needed to resolve the inherent issues of battling pure evil. Or, at least, a sequel is necessary.
The fact is, two people can't do it alone. One won't, obviously. Too many fuckheads. Too many minions of hell. They have been way too organized for way too long and, basically, too many people, also minions of hell, find it way to profitable to keep it that way.
Go to "Democracy in America," by Alexis DeTocqueville, who observes that the best way to dissassemble any opposition to the forces of tyranny and overeaching authority is to divide and conquer. This was before most labor unions in the U.S. came about. Before the revolutions, more evolved than those of the 18th and 19th centuries, came about.
But today we see whole sweeps of people, connected via technologies for communications sweeping away whole seemingly intractable regimes within a few years, months, days. Hour by hour.
How do you recognize the pudding heads, then? Well, follow the money. That always helps. But also check into this: Who is trying to split up the opposition with shadow games, deception? Also, who isn't being heard from, although they seem to be responsible (such as Dick Cheney during the BP oil spill fiasco). The rat will always go into hiding when confronted with someone who wants to speak truth to power.
How else? God knows, doesn't care. We decide. We. Decide. Nobody else around, really. It's plain as this: All hands on deck! Sink, or swim. We may not be able to save the world, but we can save each other.