I was starting to think that everything I'd been taught about this country was wrong. It seemed as if we WERE a Christian country, after all, and one that didn't accept the theory of evolution. It seemed as if doing anything we wanted to "enemy combatants" was okay. It seemed as if we could search and spy and detain people without due process of law. It seemed as if the flag was more important than the constitution. It seemed as if rich people were more important than the rest of us and that punishing people for being poor would make them stand up and fly straight. It seemed as if it was reasonable to hate people for not being heterosexual or...gasp...not white! It also seemed as if some elected Democrats (with notable exceptions) agreed more with the Republicans on these questions than I did.

When I discovered DU, I learned that there were lots and lots of people who knew that I was right and the country had gone crazy.