The Night Before the Inevitable Chaos

[liveonearth]

Well I haven't been posting much lately....life has me running. But I have been paying attention to the news, little bit from here and there. I heard McCain claim his impending victory this morning. I saw the Saturday Night Live clip in which Palin inanely jived along with the skit mocking her. I heard that Cheney endorsed McCain, finally.

Comments

[inibo]

For the most part I agree, but 'cept for "The winner will be faced with a time period during which Americans still have not admitted publicly that we cannot continue to live at the standard that we think is uniquely ours."

That will be a self-imposed restriction. If we were to dismantle our overseas military empire and stop all foreign aid there would be a couple of billion dollars a year that would be left in the economy in a perfect world, but at least spent here on stuff we need. We still have one the most if not the most productive economies in the world when it's not having almost half its life blood sucked out by DC. Of course, neither of them is going to address that in any way whatsoever, so, you're right. We're pretty much fucked.

[liveonearth]

You're right too, in that some individuals and groups have admitted the need for and depth of change needed. I wish that there were enough of us to make a dent in the support for the two "main" candidates. My hope for this election is that at least 10% of the votes go to "3rd" parties....but it is not easy to get people to vote their conscience (not dem or rep) when the evil (the neocons) they are voting against is so frightful.