hey, check it out! you just summarized my junior year history class! (at least, the parts that weren't colonial, which yanno, kinda got done to death in the preceeding 10 years, or the speed-taught "everything since the bicentenial" first three weeks.)

and guess what? i did pay attention, hell i even enjoyed that class. and i'm still a libertarian despite the fact that i haven't voted once for sam brown. if pressed, i'm a progressive constitutional libertarian with a big hardon for small business and true free market economics, but that doesn't fit on my voter registration card.