A few weeks ago, a little study about the contagiousness of positivity enjoyed several days upon multiple iterations on news sites and “buzz aggregators”. People are starved of it, and they're expressing it in ways that go beyond common sense considering economists’ bleak projections about what America will look like (it ain't pretty) if we don't do something and something big, something NOW. The danger of waiting risks losing huge demographics (I need to speak to the useless third of the population in terms they're sure to understand) of people who would otherwise not support sweeping, innovative, risky projects to reboot our economy.

Complain all you want about Obama's appeared drift to the middle. More than anything (more than fantasies of future economic models), we need consensus, efficiency, and courage from our leaders at a time when people are still impressionable. Leaders that decide, politically, to oppose this unprecedented drive for progression will pay dearly, politically; their constituents forever turned off to government, period. Obama is here to soothe those of us who still haven't realized the depth of our crisis and just how badly we need to put our minds TOGETHER.

Stop belly-aching. Stop nit-picking. This man is not lying to us. He's just begging us, ALL OF US, to get along. The realization of that will be, quite simply, our salvation.

The Civil War is set to officially end January 20, 2009. It's our choice whether that date will also mark the beginning of the end of America.