Well. here it is November 3, and tomorrow is election day. I'm excited and scared by the choice we face. I believe that this may be a fateful decision, and I can't shake the feeling that things will go terribly wrong somehow. I'm a pretty progressive guy, socially speaking, and a fiscal conservative, and I don't think there's really any choice that we as a nation can make that will have a bigger impact on our daily lives that the choice of who will lead us over the next four years.
At this point, the domestic economy shows signs of near total collapse, international markets are in the same boat, our current executive leadership seems to think more of the same baloney that got us here, combined with a general socialization of the disastrous debts and credit defaults will save us.
Politically speaking, we have one candidate who won't (or possibly can't) define what he stands for other than "not Obama" and the other is offering hope and inspiration combined with lots of hard work and rebuilding and expanding the infrastructure, much like the CCC and TVA of FDR's time.
The thing is that ordinarily I wouldn't be really in favor of all the spending attendant on such a plan, but we've seen what our current robber barons and "leaders" have offered, and I am hearing from the right that what we really need is more of the same policies and tax breaks and such that brought us to this point.
History tells us that what Obama is selling is much like what FDR was using to drag us out of the Great Depression until WWII provided the demand for more goods and services than industry could provide, and Obama is getting much the same treatment that FDR got from the Republicans of his day.
I don't know if Obama will be able to convince the Democrats and Republicans in Congress and the Senate that he has the right plan, but I think we're rapidly approaching the point where almost anything is better than what we have presently, even if it seems to be a socialist solution to the right-wing (it isn't, really. It's a capitalist solution - we aren't talking public ownership and control of industry here).
Anyway, here's hoping our next President Elect will be Barrack Obama...
