Oblio @ 117

I’m not saying nothing ugly will happen. There’s been ugliness already.

But we’ve seen ugliness before and worse. The Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War to name a few. We struggled and recovered and laid the track for further troubles. Such is life.

But despite excessive rhetoric from all sides we’ve not come near tyranny.

I’ll take the house odds that we continue in our fractious, imperfect, yet democratic way.

Besides, as I have said, the trend lines since Obama started running amok have all been favorable. He and his supporters keep losing strength while we keep gaining strength. Obama has done some damage and he will likely do more but installing tyranny in America is not on that menu.

Oblio, I remember you as a fine fellow and I miss you too, but once a blogger starts censoring my posts and calling me names, I stop thinking of that blog as a comfortable place — much less home — and figure that he or she doesn’t need my hits, my attention, or my participation. I’ve not looked back.