No more kings

I actually got goosebumps watching this. Partly because I haven't watched this episode of Schoolhouse Rock since I was a kid, and it's one of my favorites. But also partly because we forget sometimes that we're all part of a big historical experiment that was founded on something greater than an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing government, the suppression of dissent, and the wanton violation of civil liberties. (Well, actually, we were founded on all those things, but it was the other guy who was doing them to us.) For all the patriotic claptrap that the Republicans spew, they so don't understand, or care to understand, what this country is really about, what patriotism is really about, what America is really about. Who'd have ever imagined that one little cartoon could so perfectly encapsulate the problem of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the modern Republican party.