wallydownundy

I like the theory that societal norms stretch like a rubber band then after they reach an extreme they bounce back to the opposite side. In politics it played out in Australia. After eleven years of a conservative government we reached our limits and snapped to the other side. As America prepares for an election in 2008, where will the rubber band snap to?

 It’s hard to imagine a Republican having a chance at the White House once history’s most unpopular president leaves. Bush is Republican and is blamed for an unpopular war, a sputtering economy, tragic international relations, etc. Bush personally pulled the rubber band to breaking point in the extreme rush to the right. The Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, Weapons of Mass Destruction are just examples of the neo-conservative stretch.

Now Hillary and Obama are duking it out for a chance to lead the nation. Each stress the theme of change. The nation has experienced one end of the spectrum and is ready for a re-alignment. But watch - in time it’ll get more and more liberal until finally the nation snaps again.

Swings and roundabouts or chutes and ladders - call it what you will. I just imagine a nation-sized elastic stretched nearly to breaking point and today it’s ready to “POING” to the other side.