An Accidental Posting, but hey

There is some optimistism being bandied about willy nilly these days.
People are excited, anticipating big changes with the midterm election on Tuesday, four days from today. They hope that the Republicans will be nudged from power, losing the House and possibly the Senate to balance out the grotesquely awesome accomplishments of this murderous administration.
The media says that in greater numbers, especially in the middle of the country, people are fed up with war and [correction] its perpetrators, with our fiscal mess at home, and with their perception of an arrogant, elite, war-mongering and radical -- in the bad way-- executive branch. These people will be voted out eventually, I am certain.
But in the meantime, there remains a huge group of other people who for various reasons are not politically engaged. It's at 75 percent, I hear. I am guessing either they've been rejected or suppressed by our institutions or they choose voluntarily to reject them.
For the latter folks, it's time to rethink things. As much as I understand the sentiment that this country is beyond redemption, and that elections have become choices between evils, I can't agree anymore that non-voting is an answer.
In 2000, many thought it couldn't get worse. Then Sept. 11 happened. And everyone -- even the ubernegative -- shook their heads because it did. And the badness has yet to wane.
Well, maybe this election is a sign -- a small, hopeful sign. Something to be optimistic about. There exist today some great and honorable public servants, who could be future heroes. That's something.
And more and more people are waxing political. Being in D.C. it's hard to tell if that's an inner Beltway thing, or if the whole country really is more engaged than it was six -- or even two -- years ago. Here in my supersecret city around the District, I'm flanked by two crucial senatorial races between horrendous Republican candidates and tolerable Democrats. It's a nasty fight and it's all people are talking about. So my hunch is people are into it, invested, angrier and surlier about the state of affairs. It's affecting their pocketbooks and their sense of stability, sanity and safety. Maybe, in sum, there is a tad less apathy than there was before.
It's not a lot, but it's something.



I think I should have just posted a picture of Madonna draped in the American flag with the words "Rock The Vote" in black lettering. Woulda saved us a few grafs.