Two Interesting Points...

By our Board Chair Colin Greer - essentially noting that there is no American "center," no "mainstream" voter base. There aren't a million-million Joe Blow McAverage Republicrackers out in Iowa or Idaho or wherehaveyou, voting for evil Supreme Court fuckers who would prefer to overturn the social progress we've made in the last century. America instead consists of individuals who will vote sensibly if they're not confuzitized by the Republicans. Not that every victory would go to the Dems - far from it. Greer notes (and I think many at CP would agree) that truly Independent candidates are the goal...

And by some dude named George Lakoff who Greer doesn't really like - but has a great point about Prez. Bush's perceived "incompetence," which I've long said is a mask for the competence of his evil. Lakoff's whole "how to speak to conservatives" thinking points are interesting just because - like Colin's quite funny, easy to take in but hard to disagree with notes about who really votes for what, when - they provide us not-so-scholarly, perhaps not-so-eloquent progressives, radicals, reformers, etc. with new ways to combat old challenges.

And both articles ultimately give us cause for hope: Eventually, sense will prevail, as long as we aren't intimidated by the Bushes of the world. He may be a competent tyrant, but we can't let ourselves be incompetent voters or bad thinkers. As Larry Wright pointed out, America isn't going to fall to some Outsider with an alien agenda. But America might fall because of greedy, competently immoral Americans.