Boo! Happy Election!
The election looms. Many in my neighborhood have shown the optimism of the democracy with signs on their lawns declaring their support for candidates.
This is a harder election for me.
There are two men running for President, one representing a political party that sees government as a tool for certain groups--and not others--and one from a party that used to believe that government was a constant danger that must be restrained but now is little more than a social club.
It's fitting that this election should be held at Halloween because all candidates in this country are in disguise. Some are blatantly not what they say, some are in more subtle garb. But the essence of these people is this: Any benefit for the citizen or the country is coincidental. They are running to advance themselves and a few special interest groups. The rest of us must work through and around the problems they create to gratify themselves until the next election when unity will again be said to be paramount.
They offer a morality play in Form and Substance. With different appearances, they are the same.
What is different is the energy of the far-Left, those who try to bring the ancient internal conflicts of old Europe to this country. These are the people who rub differences raw, who believe in historical inevitability that demand violent resolutions. They come to the Washington Wrestling Federation with a stiletto. And no defeat can deter them.
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