Thanks, Reg.  For reals.  Good, unequivocal, compassionate one-two monologue.

…..Just this one pothole, though; …an itchy thing that weighs on my mind too much.

You said, “…and we have been some serious fuck-ups of late but give us a chance and we might surprise you.”

Although I may have Asperger Syndrome, I’m not too sure the word “we” applies anymore, if ever it ever really did, Reggy. What I willy mean to say is, that is, it’s a courageous or um…democratic thing to relay to your peers, sir --- touching, really --- but as a citizenry (on far too many points to itemize this morning) we certainly appear to have been so rapt-perfectly disenfranchised from the tomfoolery of our ill-ustrious movers & shakers who made US this bed we lie in (via the masque media outlets and our not-wantonly moribund mongers that be, oh jeez).  So, is [we] a minty-fresh way for each of us to see-and-say responsibility for this our one wishful thought, Our Country?  While, it probably is a noble thing, a truly noble thing from deep within…in theory, it’s sounding more & more like a cry out in the dark anymore.  It bugs me too.  ..When on that blood-let day Russ Feingold stood up and spoke his singular piece..only to be filleted, we, the theoretical we, the people, we, the landlubbers of life, liberty, & the pursuit of scrappiness, if not before then, surely thereafter, had been put out with the cat.  Imagine that…imagine that.  But we do appear to still be trying.  There is that.  & that’s kinda cool………I think.