Bill, what worries me is this:
The near-openly complicit media won’t report on Americans killed in Libya. Do you think a near-openly complicit media report on a Romney win at the polls?
And if they don’t — and Obozo declares “I won” — then what? Do you have confidence in the Repub “leaders” to fight that battle?
I don’t.
Oh, they're openly complicit, unapologetic, and for some of them - these are, mostly, fairly young people - it's the only environment they've ever known their entire professional careers. Theirs is a world where truth depends on consensus, not fact, and so he or she who controls the narrative controls the consensus and therefore the truth.
That sort of collective illusion tends to encounter reality like a bug encounters a windshield. Certainly if Romney wins some of them will insist on claiming otherwise. It will not matter.
What I'm suggesting is that a large number of media illusion-makers are about to find out that when the scenery comes crashing down it tends to be uncomfortable for those underneath, even if that scenery consists of styrofoam Greek columns at an 0bama love-fest. They won't be taking over the country by force. It isn't in them. They'll be much happier in opposition anyway, where their illusions are much less challenged.
And so to the topic of the Republican "leaders". Some will fight, but some, maybe a majority, are just as much believers in illusion as their Democrat counterparts. Fortunately for us, the country doesn't really depend on politicians, or media celebrities either. They need to relearn that lesson every so often, and I pray they're about to.