Belmont Club

By Richard Fernandez

Bio

Get Updates From Richard Fernandez
A Comment About

Gazing on the Gorgon

September 10, 2008 - 6:30 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Steve Skubinna
2008-09-11 04:41:05

“If Obama were to win by a landslide I wouldn’t know anyone who liked him either.”

That is not the point. I suspect you, like myself, would not rend your garments and pour ashes upon your head if Obama were elected. You, like myself, would not pen bitter screeds asking how a majority (or plurality) of voters could have been so naive or credulous or stupid. You, like myself, would not spend the wilderness years endlessly carping about how this nation had let you down and deserves every evil that can befall it. You, like myself, would not actively root for America’s enemies and openly wish for national disaster in order to lay it at Obama’s door.

In short, you, like myself, would just go on with life and do what you do every day. No hysterical yet empty threats to leave the country, no hostile conversations begun under the bland assumption that any random stranger agrees with you and is as furious as you.