Obama Euphoria
It seems that, due to my own lifetime experiences and to those of others who lived long before me in the same genetic boat, the Obama euphoria that is gripping so many of all persuasions is largely closed off to me. There have been just too many disappointments and reversals, and my crystal ball is too clouded for me to be able to make out in it any clear picture of Majority America's general drift in the near and the distant future, even though I have watched that situation carefully all my adult life. But then, Majority America itself doesn't have the best understanding of that, and those who quietly count themselves lucky not to be in the same boat have also been through such reversals. A recent example is the way that the spirit of the 1960's, which broke so many chains in ways of thinking, was nevertheless grossly betrayed by the decades that followed.
That's why subjects like President-elect Obama's choice of a dog for his daughters, his attitude toward sports, and the overwhelming clamor for tickets to his upcoming inaugural -- concerns that are of such great interest to many -- strike me as being way over on the insignificant side.
I keep thinking instead of how, because the Republicans are the party of choice for the hate groups and those who would turn the clock back to the darker eras of the American experience, the result of each election of modern times that favored them has been to keep pushing the country closer to a situation much like what the no less civilized Germans accommodated during the 1930's. So Obama's election must mean that that effort has at least been put on hold. The camps may be ready, but now the star-spangled cattle cars won't start rolling just yet. But as to whether such implements will now become just fast rusting-away relics of a dying "Final Solution" dream will still remain to be seen.
I'm perfectly aware, though, that there are still just as many grounds for hopes instead of the brightest of futures.
"...Faith, hope, and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity." So goes a verse somewhere in the Bible. Some people are scornful of hope, but in a movie I saw recently, a prospect for a risky wartime venture was asked which among faith, hope, and love (charity) would she value most. We might've expected her to say "Love," but she answered "Hope." That makes a lot of sense, too.
That's why subjects like President-elect Obama's choice of a dog for his daughters, his attitude toward sports, and the overwhelming clamor for tickets to his upcoming inaugural -- concerns that are of such great interest to many -- strike me as being way over on the insignificant side.
I keep thinking instead of how, because the Republicans are the party of choice for the hate groups and those who would turn the clock back to the darker eras of the American experience, the result of each election of modern times that favored them has been to keep pushing the country closer to a situation much like what the no less civilized Germans accommodated during the 1930's. So Obama's election must mean that that effort has at least been put on hold. The camps may be ready, but now the star-spangled cattle cars won't start rolling just yet. But as to whether such implements will now become just fast rusting-away relics of a dying "Final Solution" dream will still remain to be seen.
I'm perfectly aware, though, that there are still just as many grounds for hopes instead of the brightest of futures.
"...Faith, hope, and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity." So goes a verse somewhere in the Bible. Some people are scornful of hope, but in a movie I saw recently, a prospect for a risky wartime venture was asked which among faith, hope, and love (charity) would she value most. We might've expected her to say "Love," but she answered "Hope." That makes a lot of sense, too.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 3:50 AM
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