Sigh Brrrr Monday?

"There is just no introspection there at all..."
After a long holiday weekend, QD returns to the blogosphere to find, suprise! George Bush is still ensconced in his role as petulant child refusing to admit he made a boo boo. According to a little piece in the Daily News (Click the quote) staffers are dispirited and blue.

On a related note, QD is half way through Irving Bartlett's book The American Mind in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. This little quote stands out ... "Tocqueville described Americans as "venturous conservatives" who wanted change but feared revolution."

And still we stand today.

QD suspects this fear of revolution is exactly what is wrong with the left. The history of America has long been a balancing act between conservative orthodoxy and materialism versus idealism, innovation and a liberalism based in the belief in the individual.

So here we have on one hand a president who will commit lives to defend mercantilism and nationalism while depriving citizens of bread, roses and rights and what do the Dems do? Nothing. And what does the average citizen do? Nothing. If whining and finger pointing were activism that assessment would have to be changed for there is nothing but whining and finger pointing! But where, in the public arena, are the loud strong voices preaching the antidote to this republican throwback to Calvinism, Imperialism and corporate slavery. Where is the Emerson of the new Millennium?

QD ventures a guess. She suspects that there is a quiet and circumspect revolution afoot. She hears the whispers of revolution around the water cooler. Need less, family more, pay attention to politics, watch and wait to see what the economy will do while at the same time taking strides to outfit oneself and family to be able to produce, to be self sufficient, less dependant, more conscientious. This is not resistance to change for it embraces the new. Computers allow these little quiet pockets to communicate freely. Technology allows the individual to circumvent the great machines of manufacture and a kitchen can be a powerful nerve center for small business, for education, for community, for introspection.

And what then will we do with a leader who stands for arrogance, intolerance and tyranny?

QD has a few ideas.