I have been relatively quiet about this--mostly because I'm horrendously busy with teaching, writing, workshopping, flying, copy-editing, proofing, PGRing, and kissing my babies that I've time for almost nothing else (other than posting 1 or 2 backlogged items!)...but also because I'm not sure what to say that might be of any interest.
To be sure, I hope that the Democrats--the party of craven cowards and spineless accessories to military dictatorship, the majority of whom supported the criminal war of aggression against Iraq--prevail tomorrow, since the other alternative might only be euphemestically described as "the greater of two evils." And even though all the "opinion polls" in the U.S. predict Democratic victories, I'm--on this one--with Karl Rove and Yogi Berra: "it ain't over till the fat lady sings." And the "fat lady," for all we know, is suppressing the vote, stuffing the electronic ballot box, and (if Illinois is any indication) running last-minute attack ads that are so extraordinarily inflammatory and misleading as to make Goebbels blush.
And, of course, as in 2004, it's possible that the "fat lady" is so pitifully ignorant and venal that she's going to re-elect the greater of the two evils fair and square.
By the way, in our nominal democracy, only 10% of the seats in the legislature are actually viewed as competitive tomorrow. There was, as I understand it, far more turnover in the Politburo during the Brezhnev years than there is in America today. And they consumed twice as much vodka, so we stand doubly indicted!
Look, if the Democrats prevail tomorrow, and a handful of them actually decide they stand for something other than not being George W. Bush, then maybe America has a future. I hope so. But I ain't optimistic. And I'd love to be wrong.
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