Looking ahead

[prog]

McCain has lost control of his monster. This was evident a few days ago as he found himself having to correct snopesworthy concerns of audience members at a rally, but stumblingly - at one point uttering a soundbite that seemed to backhandedly endorse an Obama presidency. Yikes.

Here is my biggest fear: If the last five years of US foreign relations have planted the seeds for a new generation of bin Ladens to sprout out yonder, then the last five months of let the hate flow through you rhetoric from the desperate Right are gonna stir up a new batch of homegrown McVeighs. Yum yum.

Is there anything that the rest of us can do about this latter business, other than hoping that the DHS and the Secret Service know what they're doing?

Comments

[prog.livejournal.com]

The world is waiting for us to elect Obama, and we'll have its ear again once we do. The onus will then be on us not to screw it all up again.

I really am more concerned about what's going to grow out of the McCain campaign's assurances that their principal opponent isn't merely wrong or unprincipled, but is a traitorous crypto-terrorist, begging the question "And what do we do with terrorists?" With a wink.

As far as I know, this sort of behavior is unprecedented in American presidential politics.

[keimel.livejournal.com]

The scare factor of a whole lot of our fellow citizens is great.

The mob mentality is so vast, it's just scary to think about. And there's not much that will get people to put down those pitchforks and torches.

*shudder*

[prog.livejournal.com]

It can be defused if the economy gets better. If they get better jobs and can stop worrying about paying for junior's braces, then most will continue to say that he's a dirty ay-rab and the recovery is all Bush's doing, but they won't be in any mood to do anything about it.

That's an if, though.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Not sure about the "unprecedented" part; things were pretty hairy for the decades after the Civil War--the Democrats had problems coming back from actually being violent secessionists.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Ha. Yes, granted.