Grotesque aspects

There seem to be more than two parallel universes operating in the political spheres at present.

How is sanity to be preserved if straddling all the differing claims of reality in regard to Iraq?

How is sanity to be preserved while sensing that the country has been terminally screwed by an imperial presidency?

How is sanity to be preserved while the factions battle out the facts vs fiction concerning global warming? stem cell research? the schizoid economy?

There is not a single candidate that can convince me they have the intelligence and will and capability to rescue all that has been lost.

Perhaps the best one can hope is that the decline can be interrupted and an interim period will clarify allowing the best choices to become apparent

At present the best that can be said is that we can only see through the glass darkly.

The political terrain looks suspiciously like a Martian landscape, no telling what's over the next hill, and no Rover in sight.