[JennysCool]

about the turn of the Century, the hard core Left sensed that it was now safe for them to launch an "end game strategy,"

I agree with you on the time frame, but I think the main reason for the "launch" was they realized they were becoming old and increasingly irrelevant, and if they didn't make one more push for their '60s ideals, time would pass them by.

Time has, of course. They are irrelevant. It's only the media that worships the '60s as the height of cool that gives these strident, increasingly crazy people a voice.

[Ohioan]

I fear that your optimism is misplaced. Obama's popularity may be declining; but the mere fact that one so totally hostile to mainstream American values could have been decisively elected in 2008, coupled with the continued flow into the States, of those with no identification either with the American tradition or that of those who originally settled here, makes the future more & more problematical.

Your reference to the 1960s overlooks the fact that the Obama voter in 2008, tended to be much younger than the McCain voter; that most of those who are under 40 today, have been brainwashed with Jacobin/Marxist/Collectivist/Egalitarian types of ideas, where those who succeed are demonized & those who fail treated as victims.

This can yet be turned around, but not by failing to understand the pattern of indoctrination. (The reality, of course, is that Collectivist/Egalitarianism Sabotages Human Potential.)

William Flax