[Ohioan]

I fear that your optimism is misplaced. Obama's popularity may be declining; but the mere fact that one so totally hostile to mainstream American values could have been decisively elected in 2008, coupled with the continued flow into the States, of those with no identification either with the American tradition or that of those who originally settled here, makes the future more & more problematical.

Your reference to the 1960s overlooks the fact that the Obama voter in 2008, tended to be much younger than the McCain voter; that most of those who are under 40 today, have been brainwashed with Jacobin/Marxist/Collectivist/Egalitarian types of ideas, where those who succeed are demonized & those who fail treated as victims.

This can yet be turned around, but not by failing to understand the pattern of indoctrination. (The reality, of course, is that Collectivist/Egalitarianism Sabotages Human Potential.)

William Flax

[JennysCool]

I’m not looking so much at the 2008 Obama voter as I am at the “anti-war movement” that began with the Iraq war. It was obvious the ‘60s-’70s militant generation, and their latter-day acolytes, decided to use Iraq as the pretext for a flashback to Vietnam-era activism. When I saw an article early on that fawningly saluted the “return” of Joan Baez, I pretty much realized the old hippies were making a last stab at relevance.