I have come to the conclusion that even as pragmatic and reasonable people accomplish great things over the coming years of an Obama administration, all we will see and hear in the near future (both on- and off-line) will be the fringes hollering and screaming as their influence over the conversation is mitigated and contained.
We will hear the idiots from both parties who got us to this place in history justifying why the other person elected by 9% of their party's voters in the average primary is actually responsible for the mess and not them. Perhaps it is my own story that made it possible, but I see a counter-narrative being played out at a few decibels below the Raging Right and Raging Left.
I feel we are in the process of making an evolutionary step that would have been impossible without our revolutionatry roots.
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