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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 03:13 AM

  I Wish I Had the Faith You Do.

  There is nothing that I want more than a restored faith in "middle America." Truly. And even in light of your admirable optimism, considering what we're dealing with here--that margin offered by the polls just isn't big enough to haul this weight.

  If you had asked me two months ago how I thought Bush had managed to worm his way into a second term and ostensibly make fools out of the American people, I would have very sincerely answered that they were master manipulators of the truth. I would have said that numerous economic, geographic, cultural etc factors contribute to constrained access to information, and that were ALL Americans presented with the unfettered truth of the matter, at the very least, enthusiasm would have waned enough to preclude a 2nd term.

  But I think I might have been wrong. McCain's team is no master of Rovian discourse. They're explicitly repeating myths, twisting syntax, shamelessly appropriating narratives without even the courtesy to at least draw the shades. It's plainer than plain can be.

  It was indeed grossly cynical of McCain to choose Palin, but she is so profoundly unqualified, packed full of such nonsensical and condescending down-homisms, and truly no "supporter" of other women--what can possibly explain a difference between her and Biden that hardly dives below a handfull of points?

  I can't help but wonder if maybe the GOP is right--if this is a nation full of rubes. If a terrifying anti-intellectualism is really at the heart of "Regular People." That scares me most of all because no matter who it is we end up electing, I don't see that sort of base dissolving with very much ease.

  —snizz Read snizz's other letters
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