Enough!

There's nothing like a good ole rabble rousing rant by Keith Olbermann to express the thinking populists' outrage:

A Call For Hate-Mongers (see what fear does)

Why am I scared?

Why is it that despite the winds of change and the audacity of hope Obama gives me that I still shake in my shoes for what's in store for a new president? Especially a Democrat...inheriting such a huge financial and political mess. Especially a nice guy. The cynic in me imagines that I'm going to witness a lynching of the political and gruesome kind. I'm not sure that the failures of the present administration nor the unrestrained experimental unleashing of conservative, pro-war, pro-business, anti-environment dogs have learned anything from the mess-at-hand they created. I imagine the right wing attack dogs will be just as ruthless and that the Democrats will be just as naive and self-examining, perhaps eager to please their enemies and make friends and maintain some status quo (because they're fair and not revengeful, bless their hearts)...and this scares the bejeebies out of me.

Can't the Democrats manufacture some dogged, mean ranters who'll circle and snoop for any material and help silence the mob? Can't they produce a teeny-weeny, mean-spirited media character? Oh, Howard Dean and Keith Olbermann aren't enough. Anyway, they're always right. I'd like to be bothered by just a few wrong-headed, offensive, malevolent left-wing power mongers who taste fascist, hawk blood and go all Dobermann. I guess intellectual prowess doesn't spawn such.

On another note: here's a wise and interesting analysis of McCain vs Obama, in case you missed it in the NYTimes or Truthout. Frank Rich really shows a cultural depth in this piece that is particularly rich and impressive in its breadth across American generations.

Has the loss been enough yet?

Thank God for Keith O. I don't think I'll ever recover my lost faith in the system of checks and balances that this country once had nor will I find any faith in the legal system. It is a system built to put away the poor and the unlucky. Because criminals have been given free reign over this country, its money, its institutions, and, worse, they've been given unlimited power to use the lives of our soldiers to do their criminal bidding, how can I ever have faith again? From here on, I'll always know that whoever is in charge is in check just as long as they want to be in check. If criminals desire to take over from within, they must only convince the most uneducated and the most religious in order to do their free range robbing. The political mirage will be easy to replicate. They uneducated recognize their own by how they sound and how they walk. What a hoax. The only prevention could have been from American intellectuals. Oh they spoke alright. Just not on Fox. But they were lone wolves crying to the moon. Unheard. Distrusted. Just like African-Americans who shun education because they don't want to "act white", the uneducated shun American intellectuals because they don't want to "act smart" either. It's a foolish reaction based on deep insecurities. Has the loss been enough yet?

But one light shines: and that's Keith Olbermann: