Pick your metaphor or speak literally: Obama's Electoral College victory will be overwhelming and a blue wave will hit DC and many state legislatures come November. Sometimes Americans are fooled, sometimes they are apathetic, but they never forget how to count their dollars. While we glory in Obama's brilliant campaign, let's not forget the escalating suffering brought on by failing global economies.
This will be no mere recession. I hope it will not be a second Depression, but our economy and the economies of many, many nations are approaching catastrophe.
I am dedicated to Obama and doing what I can to help him win in November. We need him more than ever: he is our FDR. He is the hopeful, indefatigable, truly caring leader we need. Whether he uses government bonds to put Americans to work rebuilding our infrastructure and New Energy producing installations, every advance will have to be leveraged or multifaceted in a world of tighter budgets and deflated assets.
Let us never, never forget how we got here. It was leadership greedy for the fewest and most well-off. It was their control over three branches of government that allowed for our safeguards to be repealed, circumvented, and violated. McCain shrinks to a squalling footnote as America finds its hero in Obama. McCain will do much damage to the resources of and remaining goodwill felt in some parts for the GOP. Expect down-ticket GOP candidates to turn on McCain before the end. Their corporatists will go underground, while their libertarianists will splinter off.
Their fundamentalists will rise to the top of a diminished GOP. If they take on a nationalist bent, they will have to be trampled. Intolerance with a gun cannot be permitted in a tolerant society. There will be no centennial repetition of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s suffered to grow strong in desperate hate here in America.
There is no question that America is changing and will not be the same. Much that now is will be lost. The question remains: Will we replace it and can we replace it with better? Do we have the courage, industry, smarts, and righteousness to rebuild America better? Will we--the workers, voters, and taxpayers of America... perhaps its most deflated assets--rise and rebuild?
Hope comes in looking at the Obama campaign, by its thousands. They continually demonstrate their courage, industry, smarts, and righteousness. There will be less spending--everywhere by everyone--and more, heartbreakingly more joblessness. Nevertheless, we will rise.
We need Obama now. Leadership matters. As Americans, we'd like to see its upside once again. Only a hopeful, indefatigable, truly caring leader will do now. Much that now is will be lost. Let us resolve to elect and then erect change we can believe in.