An Enormity Awe-Inspiringly Surreal

The whole political situation has taken on a bizarre, surreal quality.  2000 and 2004 were weird, but this one is for the ages. I am made stupefied and nearly speechless by it. To proceed as if we are involved in anything that is sane or normal is about the most insane thing anyone could do. The idea that there is still a possibility that McCain could win this thing is just mind boggling at this point.  His campaign has just become a sick joke.

In any event, John Cole called Palin's Couric interview a train wreck.  One of his commenters wrote in and said:

“Train wreck” is being charitable – it was more like a train derailing on a bridge, tumbling a thousand feet into a canyon and landing on a pile of old dynamite and gas drums. And then a jumbo jet crashed into the flaming wreckage. Followed by an earthquake that caused the whole mess to slide off a cliff into the sea, where the few miraculous survivors were eaten by sharks.

It's maybe an image that has pertinence for our broader political/economic predicament.  But regarding Palin, Cole went on to comment:

Conservatives sometimes remark that Sarah Palin must worry liberals since we can’t stop talking about her. Worry has nothing to do with it. You cannot look away.

I have to say that a change has come over me in the last week.  I've stopped worrying for some reason.  It's as if things have moved beyond a point where worry has any relevance. My attitude now is rather one of fascination as I watch this magnificently cinematic train wreck. Whatever happens happens. It all has a macabre beauty. Is there a Swift or Hunter Thompson out there with enough power of imagination to grasp and represent back to us what is truly happening now?