To call Michele a worrywort, a doomcrier or a Cassandra would be to miss the entire point of vigilance on the home front. Her latest public expression of concern is well-noted:

This goes for all of the anti-Bush camp, actually. If you have the cast iron stomach needed to troll through Democratic Underground or Indymedia – and even some mainstream news sites – you can see where Scott [Ott] is right. All these people claiming that Bush is an idiot with the IQ of a monkey, yet they credit him with coming up with intricate, complicated conspiracies to take over the world. Evil genius, indeed.

[...]So what’s next? When will it be? Where will it be? It’s pretty much inevitable. No, not a terror attack, but something. You just can’t have this much negativity and bad vibes hanging around without a spontaneous combustion somewhere along the line. It’s just a matter of which side – out of hundreds -combusts first, which force will be that strike of a match.

I cannot claim to assume I know what inspired Michele to think this, but she does cite Sgt. Hook’s question of “What’s Next” as he lists down major terrorist attacks on us. I think that the question of import is not “What’s next,” but “What now?” To wit: I think that we, the people who remain vigilant towards domestic unrest, who toss and turn as we listen to — despite the pain and indignation it may cause — the monstrous rhetoric being whipped up by the likes of the Indymedia and Democratic Underground crowds, have continued to move on with our lives. We have not “forgetten,” nor “trivialized” nor “pushed to the backs of our collective consciousness” the horrors of 9/11 and the state of occupation we have in Iraq. What we are doing in crying “Doom and Gloom,” (as our detractors accuse us of doing) is making sure that we are aware of the current state of affairs and concerns, and that we are ready to do what it takes to protect our way of life.

This, I think, is different from what the vitriolic demonstrative masses are exhibiting. In our quest to understand what they are for, I think we are missing one very salient point: What period in history are they in? Yes. They are aware of current events. They are aware of facts from the sources they have chosen to trust. But I think that they have been stuck in a temporal loop. They are stuck in the year 2000: they have a fixation on George Bush. Instead of finding a way to reach a common ground in order to both secure the nation and further their social and economic ideals, all they do is blame everything on Bush. I have only disdain and pity for their ilk; more time than that would be a waste, an unwelcome distraction to what we, as Americans, are supposed to do. Stay that way.