…and, starting noon today, I will be a proud dissenter.
Happy Inauguration Day, everyone, especially proud dissenters who remain skeptical, though skepticism is extremely unpopular right now (and might even get you called a very special kind of bad name).
The best thing about America is its support for the marketplace of ideas, where two opposite opinions can be voiced with equal right. I will be exercising my right to dissent in about a half an hour. 
Cheers!
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oatmealactivist
/ January 21, 2009Kudos. Dissent is patriotic. Always. Skepticism is a virtue. Always.
Let’s not forget the challenge to both these ideas the last administration mounted. Obamamania still has nothing on the “You’re either with or you’re against us” mentality of the Bushies.
Pet~
/ January 21, 2009Yes, dissent is patriotic. I don’t think that the lack of popularity for skepticism is less a desire to squash it and more a desire to just have a day, at least ONE day, of JOY. Most of the Obamamaniacs are thinking people at their core, and they’ll come back to that core before long.