it's not that i want to see obama fail, which would be monstrous anti-patriotic racism. but i would kind of like to see the whole damn thing collapse like a house of cards, which i think is the only possibility for a slight, temporary halt in the growth of state power. admittedly, any tiny glitch in the continuous growth of the state would be a bizarre anomaly in our march to a future bright with promise, a march that is inevitable because we americans are a people who dream, indeed who basically only dream.