You and I have been here before.  Let's make sure you understand my position.  That way, we won't have to have this conversation again in the future.

I read plenty of "This is how we should change things." diaries penned by good thinking folks who only mean the best.  The problem is, I imagine the Cheneys/Berlus/etc. reading these pieces, the people who really run things, and I don't see them going along with it.  I don't see how the good intentions/great ideas win over the people who run the show.

BTW, did you see the Olbermann Special Comment in "What Do you get when, you Cross" by jamess?  Hell, WE can't even get Obama to do the right thing.  

So, "comic-strip villain paranoia"?  No no no.  But I do imagine the chuckle that a Cheney would get if he ever took the time to read many of these diaries.  I think those folks have other plans.

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.