America is one fucked up and awesome place

[insanity]

I am aghast at the level of stupidity coming out of John McCain and his supporters. It is probably the bubble I've built around myself on the West Coast, but I never thought so many people could turn into batshit lunatics for the campaign of Mr. McCain (or is it simply against Mr. Obama). They offer no real substantive ideas just general themes and insinuations about the character of his opponent.

On the other hand, polling data indicates that the plurality of American voters reject the candidacy of John McCain. This election may be one of realignment where our country finally gets out of the hole we've been digging since Nixon spoke of a silent majority. For me, a 22 year old college student, I see this election as a referendum on our future more so than any other recemt election. In many ways, this is our first election since 9/11 and we now have a clear choice. Embrace, yet again, the values of the system that put us in the shitter or to usher in a new era where we solve problems like rational adults.

I'm moved, almost to the point of tears, that so far the country seems willing to take the next step.

[demnan]

1. It certainly is a defining moment based on this election

If we don't elect Obama I fear for the future of our country.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. You are living history

Observe what you see... You have the benefit of being able to experience it, not just from the propaganda media (which has gotten worse with this last administration), but from the last bastion of free speech - this latest incarnation of the internet, complete with video, that my generation and older didn't have.

When I was 22, we were about to re-elect 666, Ronald Wilson Reagan, despite the obvious signs that he wasn't all there (and we would later learn that he did have alzheimer's). I am hoping we can bring this latest, near 30-year nightmare that sprouted from Lee Atwater, who passed it on to KKKarl Rove, who then punted it to the imbecile Steven Schmidt, to an end if we can get Obama elected.

[insanity]

3. The thing I'm most excited for

is to tell my kids, if I ever have any, that I saw Barrack Obama speak and that I voted for him the first day I got my ballot.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Your generation is WAY better than mine, and you guys give us all hope.

I'm early 40s, came of age under Reagan (that's what made me a staunch liberal). Too many of my generational cohorts were little preppies ready and eager to embrace Unca Ronnie and buy into the Corporations-Uber-Alles mentality. Then, in the even older generations, there are plenty of people who came of age before desegregation and who reflect that racism (disclaimer: yeah, yeah, I know, millions of cool older people, too, etc.). But the numbers of these older racists are dwindling.

Your generation and people in their 30s are much more hip to media manipulation (thank you Internet, Daily Show, etc.) and they just aren't buying into the propaganda like my more naive generation did. My nieces are about your age and they are incredibly well-informed (and therefore liberal).

Reagan's influence will continue to wane year by year as the memory of that evil geezer recedes into the mists of history.

[insanity]

5. Well, I hope my generation can make progress

I'm still not sold on my generation. We have a tilt towards hedonism and apathy that is very concerning.

I hope that the name Ronald Regan becomes a relic of the past.