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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nThe mood is definitely not elated, but it’s calm and upbeat. There is not that feeling of “we’re about to lose.” I think that most Democrats and those supporting Obama are cautious and not feeling too confident. In the often mythical war between Dems and Pubs, Dems have taken a beating the past decade; most of this involves not Republicanism but rather church-based, allegedly Christian, not terribly charitable, neoconservatism.<\/p>\n
Apparently voter turnout was extremely strong across the country — I keep reading record numbers — and that’s for a reason: beneath the hope and optimism lurks a sense of fear and anger. And there is some concern. Despite the attack ads, Obama is not exactly a leftist or a liberal or a radical. He is a straight-on moderate; he is a product of a political process, though I feel he’s kept some of his values intact. I think it’s crucial that we not confuse him with a progressive, though he is closer to it than anything we’ve seen in a long time.<\/p>\n
I’m going to keep repeating this: whoever takes office, the work begins now. I suggest you commit to it now. There is a very, very big mess to clean up; nearly a decade of Bush, more than half a century of post-World War II growth (with its economic ‘other side of the tracks’ and an environmental situation) that seems to have reached a maximum limit.<\/p>\n
We are, as I’ve written many times, entering a phase of prolonged restructuring…rethinking…enforced changes…the kinds of changes we don’t like to make. We invest a lot of shadow material in Saturn, Pluto and Capricorn: all of our authority issues; many of our security issues; many of our family issues. And for the foreseeable future, it is Saturn, Pluto and Capricorn (with a big dose of Uranus) that are in the picture.<\/p>\n
Uranus brings in the element of fun: of liberation, of throwing off the mental shackles and expressing ourselves. Remember that old line from Emma Goldman, about how if she can’t dance, it’s not her revolution. This is not quite a revolution yet, but you can have fun even when you’re cleaning up after a party<\/p>\n
Rockin’ on,<\/p>\n
–efc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fast check-in… I live and work in Kingston, a city of 23,000 in the hills north of the big city. Kingston is the county seat, so all the campaigns have their offices here. The Republicans are right downstairs from my studio; there is nothing much going on. I just spent an hour over at Democratic … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[36,52,117],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}