At 06:52 AM 11/3/2010, you wrote:
> I didn't make a presidential prediction. Whether you're right about Obama
> or not, I see the GOP solidifying their grip on Congress in 2012.
You didn't specify 2012 in your original post. Given the thread, I assumed
your observations were about 2010.
I see Americans continuing to put things in a weird digital age sort
of perspective, mixed in with our instant gratification paradigm and
inability to really ask the right questions both in 2010 and 2012.
And for as long as we can get away with it, actually.
I think an earlier prediction that I made 3 years ago, probably
didn't bother posting here, that whoever won in 2008 would likely
elect the most despised president ever (regardless of party), was a
bit premature. At first, with the sudden, inescapable economic
collapse in everbody's face right before it, I thought for sure I was
going to be right. Since 2007 I have taken a more gentle role as a
predictor of events, and try to avoid the job.
I can't see though that the corporate-induced 50/50 war of the masses
will fail to hold sway still awhile longer, though no time frame.
William Catton in a very good book Bottleneck, says this is the way
we should expect stressed populations to act when we live in an
ecological overshoot situation. Anyway, it is much safer to predict a
general what rather than a specific when. I try to get a bigger
picture, something that does not hold sway in the world that this has
become, at least in the developed part of it. And today is really not
much different than yesterday. And sorry, believe it or not, I really
do try to avoid this sort of post here. But I was struck yesterday by
how much like baseball (sorry Rich) the elections have become. People
were really living vicariously through them.
Last night late I decided to check in to see what happened after the
9th inning of the election was over. I know some people who cared
immensely about prop 19 (mostly out of staters) and read this at the
Christian Science Monitor. It apparently was written long before
there were results, as the thing passed 65-34 in SF, and did quite
well a few other places. It was my own "Dewey defeats Truman" little
moment when I looked around:
"...The controversial measure not only lost, but it lost by a wide
margin across most of the state. The exception was San Francisco
(famous for the 60s-era hippie hangout in Haight-Ashbury), where it
won by a very slim margin, according to a poll conducted by Edison
Research for the National Voter Pool, a consortium of the major
television news networks and the Associated Press, as reported by the
Los Angeles Times."
The funny thing is how this failed in Humboldt & several nearby
counties up further north. They knew it would spell doom to their
local economies.
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