“Lead this people into war, and they'll forget there was ever such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of national life, infecting the Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.”(Randoph Bourne)(Hummel, 116) It is one of history's great ironies that Woodrow Wilson, who was re-elected as a peace candidate in 1916, …showed first 75 words of 3600 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3600 total…a three-second time delay. Are truly interactive tools on the horizon? The important difference between our ‘leadership democracy’ and a totalitarian state is that we are allowed to raise questions such as these. However, history shows that, in times of political crisis and social dislocation, this freedom is one of the first to disappear. As we as we enter the beginning of a new century, finding answers to these questions is more important than ever.