I see it coming, too. But what is it going to take to get people’s heads out of their..., I mean out of the sand?
I don’t think anything will. There are people who just cannot be reasoned with or with whom you cannot expect to have a rational and civil discussion with. They have heard a few bumper sticker slogans about foreign policy, economics, and the environment and it has made them into True Believers. You cannot expect a sane reaction from such people when you confront them with other ideas or attempt to engage them in a debate. It doesn’t take much to convince them that they are right - just a bumper sticker slogan or two, and if it wasn’t for those they wouldn’t even have an opinion - and you can be damn sure that they aren’t going to let someone come around and confuse them with stuff that contradicts what they have built up in their minds as absolute truth.
I have made this analogy in a couple of other places and I think it fits the situation pretty well.
Everyone likes to sleep comfortably and peacefully and then awaken slowly. America has been lulled into such a sleep over the past seventy or eighty years. Unfortunately, the warm quilt is about to be pulled off and a bucket of ice water thrown on it. America is going to wake up. The question is whether it’s going to be fighting mad or whimpering for more government handouts.
Regardless of whether Obama, Clinton or McCain steps into the oval office, we’re going to have a more socialistic government than we have now. Have fun with it folks!