I submit we have learned next to nothing from our mistakes other than to lie better, hide the evidence better, etc.
There is no 'outsider' coming to save us. We are allowing the security apparatus to spy on us domestically without reason. We have a president intent on dividing us on social, religious and economic status. All that matter is to be allowed to pretend to be part of his in crowd.
Quite honestly, I'm not looking forward to the next few years.
And yes, I wish fellow americans, right and left, and made it the biggest issue against Obama that he continued what Bush put in place and forced it's shuttering. NSA letters my butt.