Politics, Money and the Almighty
Political trends are like the stock market: intangible
and meaningless until it comes down to the final
moment when you either have money or don’t. Meaningless until either you have
say, adequate civil liberties at some moment in your own
life--or you don’t. Pundits and news reporters are
all influenced by what one or the other decides
something means. They declare The Great Tide of Public
Opinion to have turned, and then for a time, So it Is.

Listening to the news this time of year is like
listening to chickens with their damn heads cut off –
if they only could talk.

Political trends are like the stock market, and the
stock market is like religion: based totally in faith
and feeling, not in fact. Talismans, signs and
symbols are paramount.