Prager is so right on as usual. Jim should wake up and smell the coffee. I WAS a Democrat in the days of 'Scoop' Jackson and voted for him as well as JFK. Like Prager says that was over 40 years ago. My dad was a Teamster and the party hadn't been Hi-Jacked by the kooks yet!! Then came the sixties and we have been getting dragged downhill by these loons ever since. Look how many prominent politicians from Zell Miller on down have said their party left them. The party lost it's way. Same goes for some of the best known talk-show hosts that were dems. Jim overlooks many things. The rich have gotten richer, but the poor have gotten richer too. Why is it that we have to have illegals do the poor paying jobs?? Cause our poor make more money now and don't have to take them. Show me as many years of less than 5% unemployment that we have experienced in the last 8 years. Show me a higher percentage of home ownership than in the last 8 years. FDR wanted a chicken in every pot. Now you can buy sirloin tip steak for $3.00/lb and everybody can afford it!! Like the comedian Yakov Smirnoff used to say, "WHAT A COUNTRY!!" Liberalism truly is a MENTAL DISORDER!!!

The reason most Americans think we are headed in the wrong direction escapes ones such as this author and the other ideologues who can't see that the richest and most powerful country in the world has been serving special interests above the interests of the common man. When the wealth of corporations takes priority over the standard of living of average Americans, the direction is wrong. Get it?

The greater tragedy and travesty is that we are electing and being represented by people, mainly lawyers, who have had the advantage of, in many cases, the best educations that America can give. If anyone should have a basic understanding of the fundamentals of good and evil, right and wrong and the place that consistency in judgment must hold in society, it is most certainly lawyers. Unfortunately, many seem to have been overly influenced and shaped in their thinking by the social problems of the sixties; the drug culture, the sexual revolution, the race issue, the Viet Nam conflict and accompanying protests and have a perception of consummate individual freedom that is devoid of a notion of personal responsibility. If corporate guilt is allowed to govern, we have only people who compromise principle for the sake of electability running for public office. This is not leading, it is following and it has produced the seven reasons at the bottom of Mr. Prager's article that are why we are headed in the "wrong direction."