2008 could have been a hundred years ago as far as the body politic of America is concerned. Actually, 140 years ago to be exact, during the height of the Reconstruction period. We were a nation divided then by race and class and we remain a nation divided today along those same lines.
The Stewart/Colbert rally in D.C. only solidified in my mind that no one in America is listening to one another. We are just ranters now, and I am here on a website ranting about it. Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Liberal are all worthless labels when you consider our debt and fractured economic system.
All we could do on Saturday at the rally was to laugh to keep from crying. I felt lost in a sea of people who were all still waiting for a saviour or better still a leader. Nostalgia is America’s number one export and for now the nostalgia surrounding the 2008 elections is what many of us will use to get us through this day.
I’m voting for fear tho’ this year. The fear of economic collapse on Wall Street, the fear of immigration, the fear of Muslim airplane bombers, the fear of anything different like change. If nostalgia is America’s export then fear is our main import and I am voting so that fear will win in a landslide at the polls.
Who’s with me?
