Fred – your post on the Obama supporters and their blind faith in the impossible reminded me of something I read recently -

“In our wildest madness, we dream of an equilibrium we have lost, and which in our simplicity we think we shall discover once again when our errors cease – an infantile presumption, which justifies the fact that childish peoples, inheriting our madness, are managing our history today.”
– Albert Camus (‘Helen’s Exile’ in Literal and Critical Essays)

Later in the same piece he writes “But this is our time and we cannot live hating ourselves.”

Take heart. Mankind has seen worse before. The good fight is still before us.