Archive for December 20th, 2008

The Last Hurrah

I get the impression that everybody now sees that the message of the last election was,”Nobody is going nowhere, so let’s elect a black guy.”

In the 2008 election, the choice was between an old white Republican and a young black Democrat. Nobody even HINTS that it will make a difference.

Millions will be out there to celebrate the election of the first BLACK president.

That’s IT. With a new Depression threatening, nobody has any expectation of anything really changing. The whole thing looked like exhaustion. For a major candidate to run on the meaningless word “Change” is a symptom of complete failure.

When the entire electorate can only agree on Change, the whole two-headed system has run out of steam.

This is not 1932 or 1980 or even 1960. Everybody now agrees that the medium is the message: the new president is black, and that’s IT.

When we had a crises of this size in 1932 and 1980, the change was specific, a straight switch from right to left and vice-versa. Roosevelt and Reagan went in on announced swings from one side to the other.

Now both sides are discredited completely.

Something started in 2008, and has little to do with a black face.

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