Actually, I think that makes it worse. The people who are not in daNile will at some point explode out of sheer frustration and fear. The red voters are behaving like someone who is driving erratically but won't give up the driving to someone else. Eventually, the fear will be too great for the rest of us. There will be a move to take some kind of control.
I believe the 80/20 rule applies here also. 80% of the people are struggling to make ends meet and live virtually from paycheck (if they get a paycheck) to paycheck. They may not even get a chance (or have enough curiosity) to read the newspaper or watch the news on TV.
Of the 20% that follow current events and get a chance to read, 10% are really committed to right wing causes. They are on the whole more passionate than those on the left. These are the super religious, the super patriotic, committed racists (white racists as opposed to the black racists), and more recently the neoconservatives. They are on the whole better organized and better financed.
The people on the left are on the whole self centered, egotistical, and not willing to get outside of their own comfort zones.
The right wing is committed to influencing and forcing their views on the rest of the population via talk radio, born again pulpits, and now they have jumped on the internet bandwagon (that is probably a neoconservative contribution - in addition to the brains they bring to current conservative views).
This is a complete mismatch. The only way the right wing can lose is if they defeat themselves.
Right now our right wing is going to defeat the Muslim right wing. The Muslim right wing will have a crushing defeat that they fully deserve.
Our right wing will be riding high on this victory. However, our right wing will inevitably destroy itself. First of all the right wing coalition will never hold. The neoconservatives will be the first to go. The superpatriots will then have a go with the super religious. How far can the super religious go with their belief in Creationism? IMO with Creationism, they would have to get rid of anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics, and philosophy - just to get started.
Ultimately truth will have to prevail. That is inevitable.
The left will never be a factor. The left will only be capable of observing and making clever comments.
But ultimately, somehow, truth will prevail. I don't know how that is going to happen, but that is what will happen. |
