What's happened here at the Cafe is like what's happened during 7 years of bush.  It's:

"a twist on a market research technique called "deprivation
research," in which marketers measure how loyal consumers are to a
brand or product by taking it away from them."  WSJ

It's amazing the pent up interest and demand for the Constitution after
7 years of near-dictatorship.  There's tremendous longing for it, ever
since we've experienced absence of the Rule of Law, absence of the
Balance of Powers, and a judicial system perverted.  Yes, I'd like my
Constitution back!  But at this point that is still in doubt.  Serious
doubt.  Deprivation research is occurring in the nation.  An
overwhelming majority of people now say the nation is seriously on the
wrong track.  There may be disagreement about the "right" track, but no
doubt the results are in.  Will things change?  We can only hope.



Take away our Constitution.  And suddenly there's a groundswell of
loyalty and appreciation.  A desperate desire to get back to the Rule
of Law.



Here at the Cafe there is also evidence of pent up interest and
demand.  Yes, we'd like our Cafe back!  It's not the substitution of a 
dictatorship of course. And we do believe Josh and his terrific crew
are doing all they can to restore order.  But it seems we must endure
more weeks (months?) without the "home" so many of us have come to
depend on and make use of.  Will things ever be like the old Cafe?  We
can only hope!



Take away the Cafe as we've known it.  And suddenly there's a
groundswell of longing and frustration.  That cannot easily be
assuaged.  TPM and the Cafe are the means for many of us to discuss the
need for national change and renewal.  That's why the "deprivation" at
the Cafe has left us so sorely in need these past 10 days.



 Used effectively "deprivation research" only goes on for a short while.
And mostly it happens with consumer consent.  Here's a description of
it
from a Wall Street Journal article describing a hoax where customers at
two Las Vegas Burger King's were greeted with no Whoppers on the menu. 
They were filmed and these vignettes were used in Burger King
advertising.



In the case of the Constitution and the Cafe we've got a serious case
of deprivation going.  And there may be no going back.  That's what's
worrying so many of us.  Not just the Cafe.  But the Constitution.  The
nation as we've known it.