I gotta say something in response to gitasatsangha's reply, since we both came out of the mess together and he sort of took the left road while I took the right ('And I'll be in Scotland before ye'). The notion that those who still think they can change the world go left while those who don't go right is born of an inherent (and almost universal) bias toward our own respective choice. I mean, if I had been the one to post it, I might have tried to say something exactly the opposite. We Americans tend to have trouble seeing across the lines, not because one group is good and the other evil (though we're inclined to believe it), but because our inherent presuppositions about good and evil differ. So it's deplorably easy for me, a card-carrying conservative, to fall into an assumption that liberals are nasty, evil people. But it's just not true. And for you on the other side of the fence, the opposite isn't true, either. In the end, the majority of us are trying to find our own path toward making the world a better place, or at least being able to look ourselves in the mirror at night. And step one is: we gotta stop despising the other team.
And hey, I ain't Mother Theresa, but at least I don't fear the mirror anymore.