On a See-Saw

Maybe I should do just one post today, with a single line: Go Read Everything on American Thinker.

As a spiritual antidote to the looming despair I'm feeling about Tuesday's election, James Lewis has a broader and more historical perspective. And a more optimistic one. I suppose it means he has more faith in The American People than I do.

Perhaps I have a skewed view because I live "very nearly" in San Francisco. And it is more than just a Blue Bubble, it is a Blue Moon of Venus (don't quibble about actual astronomical facts—I chose Venus because it's the only "feminized" planet). My world is circumscribed by men who think like teenage girls, and women who don't bother thinking at all. They just emote.

It's more "authentic".

So my snapshot of The American People is pretty dark; pretty underdeveloped. There doesn't seem to be much there, there. (I need to get out more.)

But I read with hopefulness the optimism in Lewis' article, who believes that even if the Creature Obama wins Tuesday, eventually, when his agenda can no longer be hidden by a compliant press, The American People will see it for what it is and rebel. He, like me, would naturally prefer that they come to their senses before the election rather than otherwise, but a potential Obama victory does not make him lose heart. He believes that the irrational Obama obsession, (and the fact that a conspiring press inflamed it) might actually work in our favor, and against the sleazy lie-machine that created him.

For a clearer view of The American People, I do have to trust to those who know the real ones...stuck as I am in a cesspool of imbeciles who wear Che t-shirts and think Castro's cool.

If sometimes I seem to vacillate wildly between hope and despair, the despair comes from personal experience on the Left Coast, the hope from beyond the Sierra Nevadas.

The Gunslinger

P.S. Since we're doing an American Thinker Day...you might as well read this too. Augustus Goddard (is that a great name or what?) describes the very essence of "Progressive".