11-7-06 Today We Vote

As I write this, I have just returned from voting. I expect that the democrats will win big in this election, and I say that because it's an "everybody knows" that the republicans have really pissed off the majority of Americans over the past couple of years.

But to really weigh in on how much the shift from neocon, pro-war support for the republicans has taken an about face, we have to turn to more subtle indicators. The most subtle, I think, is embodied in this particular article from Bloomberg that sought out Michael Moore and asked, "Where've you been, Michael?"

The fact is that the guy is "mainstream" now. The last time the press was all over him was 2004, when he was promoting his movie "Fahrenheit 911", and he was a controversial figure. But now that he's pretty much in a political position that the majority of Americans inhabit, he's just not controversial anymore. Nobody in the press considers anything he has to say as interesting, because he'd just be saying what everybody else is saying. We all know this, we all are living this, and the mood of the public in this country is a self-evident truth.

But, as I write this, we don't really know what the outcome of this election will be. We know what it should be. But we don't know if it will really give us what we want. It could very easily come out to be a big disappointment to the majority in this country, if the republicans maintain control of the house and senate.

I just hope that if the election turns out that way, we don't just sit back and pretend it wasn't stolen again.