Election Season

There was a very Springsteen-Cover type feeling to the scene at the gazebo in the center of town - October 12, 2008. These two have no idea who Springsteen is, never heard a song from Born in the USA. They are happily ignorant to the economic and political turmoil that swirls around them.

It seems like very dramatic times. The stock market crash wiped out 1/3 to 1/2 of most peoples' savings in less than two weeks. Still, incomes have been untouched for the time being. The Presidential election seems to be much more polarized than I can ever remember - certainly more so than 2004 or 2000. Even the economy, a grave situation which could very easily have brought the nation together like only natural disasters and wars, seems to have ignited partisan blaming, grandstanding and political opportunism instead.

Could be just that I am new to looking closely at these things, but I feel like there are no longer facts. Instead, we have the facts according to how one views the world. Is there a version of events that are in fact, undisputed facts?? My optomistic side views the current climate as part of the ebb and flow of American history. The rest of me is not so sure......