Yep. BUT, and here is a very big but, at least the marathon circus does guarantee that the guy with the finger on the button is emotionally stable. And Mr O will certainly be that. The best thing a crushing defeat for Team Red will achieve is persuading them to go back to their roots. Things like yeah, let's have the biggest store of armaments the world has ever seen but we'll just sit on them and try NOT to use them unless we absolutely have to.
It's hardly a seachange, but I do see it as holding the hope that US politics will return to a choice between the Right and the Centre-Right rather than the Right and Ulra-Nationalist Authoritarianism bordering on Totalitarianism.
I hope the result tomorrow will be seen by clearer heads in the Republican Party as the American people repudiating the Rovian notion of them as an easily controlled mob ruled by fear and prejudices, a repudiation of the Imperial Presidency the GOP has moved towards in the past eight years and a repudiation of the policy of ideology over ideas, self-confidence over self-awareness. I hope they, like the Tories in Britain, and as the Liberals here in Australia are starting to do, pull themselves back from the brink and start listening to the people rather than assuming they can just sell the people what the Right Wing think tanks tell them.
So yes, it perhaps won't be the dawn of a New Jersalem, but at least it's the beginning of a move away from the Orwellian Dystopia that many of us saw approaching in the US.
It makes me hate the idea of a popularly elected President for Australia all the more. What's wrong with a monarchy, anyway? Whilst I support the idea of a republic, I fear the damage it will bring to our political system. America is not a place that democracy is built on. HYPOCRITS!!
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Date: 2008-11-04 07:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-04 09:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-04 09:33 am (UTC)I hope the result tomorrow will be seen by clearer heads in the Republican Party as the American people repudiating the Rovian notion of them as an easily controlled mob ruled by fear and prejudices, a repudiation of the Imperial Presidency the GOP has moved towards in the past eight years and a repudiation of the policy of ideology over ideas, self-confidence over self-awareness. I hope they, like the Tories in Britain, and as the Liberals here in Australia are starting to do, pull themselves back from the brink and start listening to the people rather than assuming they can just sell the people what the Right Wing think tanks tell them.
So yes, it perhaps won't be the dawn of a New Jersalem, but at least it's the beginning of a move away from the Orwellian Dystopia that many of us saw approaching in the US.
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:44 am (UTC)-- mpp (http://twitter.com/m_p_p)