A cautionary tale

From the Great and Terrible Czar of Muscovy writing at The Gormogons:

One Possible Future
For most of the Americans that re-elected Barack Obama, social media is revealing that somehow they aren�t getting the guy they thought he would be. This seems incredible to those of us who have long-since recognized him as an incompetent partisan hack, but yet it is completely understandable: people are reacting exactly the way they do when giving a loser a second chance and realizing, early on in that second chance, he�s screwing up worse.

That�s the left wing, definitely. But too many on the right wing are coughing up bizarre theories about Marxist takeovers, and so on�none of which is particularly interesting, well thought out, or even useful. Look, if you really wanted someone to install a permanent Marxist r�gime in the United States, Barack Obama�the guy whose staff sent a Hurricane Sandy survivor (who merely asked when the promised help would arrive) a form letter thanking her for her support of the troops�might be doofus you want mis-calling the shots.

America generally avoid extremes: a new normal emerges like a Hegelian synthesis of the two and we live with it. Right-wingers think liberals want to put in a liberal Euro-socialist country of high taxes and diminishing population. Left-wingers think conservatives want a...well, who know what they think we want. It changes so often. Something about corporate welfare, grannies plummeting off cliffs, and a Morlock-based society of the rich feeding off the liberal Eloi or something.

The probability is that neither will occur, but a tempered balance between those extremes. Indeed, America in the future might look something like the following.

Read the whole thing -- the Czar nails it. Knowing what I know now, I would hate to be a grade-school student...