with no real news to distract me...

[gfish]

I've been rereading my 2004 election post-mortem. I'm reasonably pleased with how well it still stands. I'm very glad to have been wrong about the Democrats lurching to the right. For the most part, though, I don't think (with the beautiful exception that is the Obama campaign) that we've actually become that much smarter about the media. We've been facing a largely incompetent, corrupt, demoralized, completely out of touch opposition. With luck¹ that will continue through 2010, but I don't want this to be a repeat of the Carter administration.

1: With real luck the GOP will spend a couple cycles divided, with the corporate conservatives fighting the social conservatives for control, maybe even calving off a couple (short-lived) new parties in the process.

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We can but hope.

I've been waiting for a real third party for a long long time. The green party was actually on the ticket in my area (I didn't vote for them but in one local case) but they have some serious issues they need to iron out before they are taken seriously by people even with the current environmental issues.

Of course most people still aren't noticing those unless they affect their beer and football or drive up the price of that Ford OMGITSHUGE! SUV.