Some thoughts this early Wednesday A.M....

1. One of the spouses of an employee of mine is posting anti-President Obama/anti-Vice-President Biden stuff all over Facebook. He calls them 'liars' and generally denigrates their competence and character. Interestingly, this family needs certain state and federal government funding in order to properly cope with a difficult situation and they as a family have performed a stellar job over the years, they really have. Unfortunately for them, our RW governor here in PA has seen fit to cut these programs in concert with our RW state legislature, and it has caused tremendous hardship here. This speaks for itself...on the one hand, and OTOH... In other contexts you would be impressed as to their intelligence and savvy, but again, this is typical of many in the electorate. I just shake my head in vague disbelief.

2. Yeah, RW mofos, you just go out and steal this election in FL or OH or wherever you've got the machines rigged. You just go and try to steal the third election out of four we've had, (four out of five if you count the weirdness of 2010 but that's a story for another day). Yeah, you just go ahead and crookedly dismiss the first United States President of color, and when the rumors/facts start wending their way through the mainstream, you are going to look back upon the civil unrest of the Sixties with great fondness for its relatively benign expression, compared to that which you are going to have to face from both macro and micro standpoints. There will be no pretense of civility or maintenance of the status quo. I'm not even referring to potential street-rioting issues, I'm referring to the personal hatred which is going to eclipse anything seen here ever. God help this country if the trust, so warily observed by the masses of so-called minorities, is betrayed by the fascists. Retribution on both public and personal bases would be pervasive and extreme. It is terrifying on all levels as far as I'm concerned.

3. Personally, I think Romney and many Republicans are going to get trounced in this election. The MSM has utilized the bullet points of low Democratic ("Democrat" in some circles) voter enthusiasm, the President not closing the deal, and the like to make it sound as though this thoroughly unlikable Mitt Romney actually has a good chance of coming from behind to "WIN!" the election with "MOMENTUM!". The fact of the matter is that it was always going to be close: there was only one Democrat who won a landslide in recent history and that was Johnson after the assassination and against someone who was felt to be a warmongering radical. This will not occur again in my lifetime, since there is a great ignorance proclaimed throughout the land due to poor education (by design), clever Republican sloganeering (always easier to reduce problems to one to three words of two syllables or fewer), and outrageous lying which has evolved past an 'art form' and into a post-Orwellian Event Horizon.

4. For you younger folk: when I was a kid I used to watch Huntley-Brinkley on NBC or Douglas Edwards (before Cronkite was promoted) on CBS. If there were an international story which involved the USSR or Eastern Bloc countries, the newscasters would at the end of the reportage often read what the Soviet official news source Pravda issued, which was always the direct opposite of what we "knew" to be the "truth". This was done in order to show how transparent we were as a society and how closed the Communist society was. When I hear FOX or Chuck Todd or one of the endless Republican mouthpieces, the first thing I think of is "Pravda". So as far as I'm concerned, they're just a bunch of tin-horn wannabe Commies on our soil.