If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.
The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.