horse of george

"... one could say, could contend, that the whole point... crux of this election... is the potentiality of a coming to power of a political ideology that distrusts... or outright dislikes... hates the erstwhile American way... hell, the way of empires in general... and believes that a new age is dawning where raw power, expressed most practically in military and economic terms, but also more figuratively as a cultural ethos defined, amongst other things, by its relation to certain aspects of the nation state, that such is of diminishing relevance and thus prone to having its place in world affairs usurped by... reason... cooperation... a sympathy for others most commonly made manifest by a joyous communion with amorphous internationalism. In short, the whole point of this election is that if Obama represents the coming to fruition of such a thing... and there's nothing in his past to suggest that at the very least his most ardent supporters don't view him as such... then what emerges darkly from this shadowy confluence of events and conditions is a scenario where America will both appear to be weak and in fact be weak ... a disquieting combination for us but a rather welcome realignment for those that wish us ill... assuming of course that said zealotry of the young ideologues is misguided... which I for one most certainly believe it is..."