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PatrickG38 -> Take Heart - The Nation Will Endure (11/2/2010 6:49:01 AM)
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Take heart my fellow citizens the nation does not end today. Although the forces of reaction and ignorance will do well in today’s election, both demographic and political factors indicate this will be a last hurrah fed by amnesiac media and destroyed by the natural aging process and the changing composition of our potentially great nation. Although not all members of the tea party are troglodyte thugs, far too many are and media, of course, amplify the fools as reasonable people make for poor television. Some of them are perhaps even people of good will who do sense that the country has changed in some negative ways in the last thirty years and are find it easier to shoot down at minorities, immigrant and other powerless groups that shoot up at the corporate and economic elite who have abandoned this nation when it became cheaper to manufacture elsewhere and who fund their movement. Yet, the simple crowd shots at these rallies, with there venomous signs and lackey speakers, show the age and deteriorating health of the attendees. They are sadly dying and the nation is becoming less white by the day. The future looks like President Obama: mixed race, younger and vigorous, not like the oxygen toting diabetic who would scorn the people trying to help him. Yet the movement may well implode before the inexorable demographic destruction. The more empowered the tea-baggers are by the election returns tonight, the more likely a presidential primary, which will already be a bloodbath because of conservative litmus tests, will result in the nomination of Sarah Palin (this is not impossible) and doom the Republican party to complete irrelevance (which is really not a good thing in the long run). I though the knives would come out Novmeber3, but Politico is already reporting Republican plans to decapitate Palin politically.
So take heart my fellow citizens. Today will be an aberration albeit a particularly American one, but the rebuilding of our nation is still possible and maybe one day we may have a Republican Party that again takes seriously res publica.
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