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There is actually a case to be made, here. Whether it amounts to sophistry or truthiness is something that individual voters must decide.

It appears that either Clinton or Obama will win the election, based on their stated goals for the country. After all, President Bush has already fulfilled all of the traditional Republican promises to America.

But is there nothing left for Republicans to do? Clinton or Obama will inherit Iraq, Afghanistan, a recession, accelerating climate change, and a massive cultural divide. Democrats will remove a large number of U.S. troops from Iraq, focus resources on Afghanistan, expand legislation intended to prevent homes from going into foreclosure, attempt to address the U.S. credit bubble with legislation on predatory lending, increase subsidies and tax cuts for sustainable business models, and attempt to appeal to the interests of those Republicans that the Bush administration failed to represent.

None of this will be easy. In fact, there has never been so much work for the government to do all at once. Much of the work Democrats are facing will involve undoing most of what President Bush has done: closing black ops prisons, releasing innocent victims of the war terrorism, hopefully attempting to recapture some of the treasure that KBR and Halliburton have looted from the government, attempting to work with energy companies in order to draw up a plan to address climate change, and so on.

It's a mind-boggling workload, made doubly difficult by just how heated the political environment has become. Democrats will find themselves subjected to Republican swiftboat-style attacks so long as they retain power. It will be one right-wing smear campaign after another, as a handful of semi-rational Washington lawmakers attempt to move America out of the Dark Ages.

So why not elect a Republican instead? Historically, substantive cultural changes take place faster when they are a result of rebellion. By electing a faith-based leader who will expand out-of-control military spending, sign legislation packed full of pork-barrel spending, appoint unqualified family friends to head up vital federal departments, continue trying to impose a Christian culture on a Muslim nation, and reward the portions of the U.S. economy that produce the most pollution and/or economic instability, the American people will acknowledge that we simply cannot reform this nation incrementally. We must force a rebellion in order to bring about real change.

The rebellion will

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