Years ago when I was in college, and that was quite some time ago, I saw an outdoor sculpture on campus that I am sure must be completely disintegrated by now. It was meant to depict the industrial revolution. I was told by a friend that its decomposing showed the neglect and the intentional destruction of what was being built in the earlier part of the age that now seems to be closing in the U.S. There are many problems that are inescapable in a once-modern society that abandons the means of producing the technology that it so relies on; such as the widespread disappearance of the well-paying jobs that once made a strong middle-class something to be taken for granted.
Enter Sarah Palin. Her popularity is fueled by discontent and insecurity; the lashing out; she uses this. And she is very smart.
The problems that people are just now noticing have been in development for decades.
An analogy that I would like to think of is the argument between a married couple. They have overspent, with $9,000 going to buy bullets, and $500 for food. So they decide to buy less food. With less resources, and less to spend, driving a tank over every part of planet Earth may not be affordable. Lets take that analogy of the family struggling financially that Sarah Palin uses so often to its logical conclusion.
If we can't afford it, we shouldn't do it. The military budget has been over-bloated since forever. The domestic problems have been festering for just as long.
Don't elect someone who writes crib notes on her own hand to deliver a speech to the highest office in the land.
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