The left and the right both need to recognize that the other side wins from time to time, and that the end of the world doesn't follow.  Just because your favored policies don't get enacted, it doesn't mean that authoritarian government has arrived.

Too bad it had to be associated with Bill Clinton who later gave us a world record prison population and never ending escalation of the drug war.

Henley should have screamed the song into Clinton's face.

How many tens thousands and thousands of Americans, poor, minorities and nonconformists were butt raped or murdered in American drug war prisons over the next eight years as Bill Clinton hummed that tune and self-rightously considered himself some kind of progressive wonderkind?

Democrats taking over the congress means NOTHING to me. Not as long as the Democratic leadership continues to support the anti-democracy, crime fostering and terrorism funding drug war.

Whenever I listen to Leonard Cohen's "Democracy" or the more recent "The Land of Liberty", which was written post Bill Clinton, I want to rip the heads off of every right-wing Democrat in the nation. there would be no drug war if right-wing Democrats didn't condone it just to appease the extreme right wing in America.

For the millions in the prison,
that wealth has set apart -
For the Christ who has not risen,
From the caverns of the heart -