when this whole campaign is over in less than three weeks, we will find the nation not breathing very comfortably. what usually occurs is a relaxation and resolution to the stressful chaos of the rhetoric and lunacy of politics. but not this time around. people are still going to be embittered and embattled in constant factional fighting. those who have vested tremendous amounts of personal capital into accepting lies and deception as faith and just righteousness, will spew venom and vitriol if they suddenly begin to perceive themselves as losers. and likewise, those that have spent time and resources trying to stop the onward christian soldier march of fascism from taking over the US, will completely freak if they find they are on the losing end. there just won't be a win win situation out of all of this. well except for the wealthy for whom none of it matters at all.
i was pondering the other day about that typical conservative position--"what's wrong with the patriot act and all the other laws? If you aren't violating any of them you have nothing to worry about!" it came about from the same strand of thought that gave us that inherently evil suggestion that even if you don't believe in god, just in case he does exist isn't it better to accept him anyway. what a crock... these folks just don't understand the concepts of freedom and liberty. they only see the world as a concrete manifestation of material acquisition and relative value wealth. take away all of their precious commodities and they would stagger under the unimaginable gravity of a consciousness black hole. nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.... the ability to consume replaces the freedom of consciousness and thought. as long as this nation has access to resources and the economic capacity to keep the public spending and wasting them, real freedom will not exist. real civil liberties will be trampelled. real civil rights will be extinguished. in a culture where all value is equated with $$$$, freedom, for which there is no price, is worthless.