("An Election Half Empty")
I would modify Mr. Bruni's terminology
from hopelessness to helplessness, and from reference of morning in
America to mourning in America. There is a depression, not a decline
that is setting in, and it is an emotional as much as economic one.
Congress is in lockdown mode and will be so for the foreseeable
future. Europe and beyond are in a crisis in which the other shoe may
drop squarely on our head. Our country, our world, is ugly and getting
uglier by the minute.
In this environment it will be next to impossible to generate any
enthusiasm for the coming election. Obama cannot point to an amorphous
brighter day as he could what seems a lifetime ago, but must now rely on
defending and delineating efforts that have failed to elevate us, no
matter where the fault may lie. Romney would seek as a solution to
resurrect, with minor revision, those policies that brought us such
calamity.
On most days now, it is hard to even find the glass is half empty.
In the middle of a depression, there is, it seems, not a drop to drink.
2 comments:
Great analysis and, as always, so well articulated.
Indeed, well said. PB
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