Just to prove to their Dad that they have actually visited this site before, yesterday Sasha gave me a hard time for not posting here recently. Jeremy started to do the same, but quickly stopped as soon as he realized that he barely ever posts to his own blog, the one that his Daddyo pays a hosting fee for.
For you my loyal readers who have been wondering why there has been a dearth of postings here lately, let me explain…
Often times my posting strategy is to save a link along with a title into the software that I use to publish Daddyo, with the intent to go back later and write a full post. In looking for something snappy and fun to post here quickly (so as to placate my children), I found that the only things I had sitting in reserve to be published were about the election and about politics.
“So, Scrappy,” you ask, “you are a freakin’ political animal. Why have you not written anything about the election recently? Why in god’s name have you not mentioned how you feel about it?”
That’s a good question, I’m glad I pretended to be one of my readers asking that.
Well, here’s the answer. Yes, the election of Barak Obama as President has struck me the way it has so many Americans (and people all over our little blue marble). There has been a collective sense of happiness and hope that I have never felt with anything other than a World Series or NCAA basketball championship. And while I’ve had lots of thoughts about the whole deal and what it means, I’ve felt no need to write about it because I’m hoping that (at least for a little while), that this is a time for action, not words.
My feeling is that for once I will put down my snipe-filled pen and just watch and hope for a while. While I am not so naive as to think that Obama is the great liberal (and certainly not leftist) hope, for the first time in my life, I DO feel a sense of political hope. I feel that for once, things might truly shift in a direction I believe in. And it’s not about the new President, it’s about the larger crisis we find ourselves in. We’re entering a time that Naomi Klein talks about in her book Shock Doctrine, a time like after September 11th when the American populous is open to potentially large changes.
So right now, I want to watch. I want to hope. And for once in my life, I don’t want to opine about politics. We’ll see how long that lasts.