True, true, but our greatest asset is something they don't want and can't control--our educated human diversity, our melting pot.
They're gonna' try (via education, health care, etc.) to continue to dummy down our society, but, they cannot control the civilized, diverse, underground "intelligentsia" among the masses within our the middle class. It's our strength; they're trying to kill something they can't, just like we can't "kill" fundamentalism.
My theory as to why the dem electorate have been so eerily quite is, they didn't want to show their hand, talk trash. As soon as a dem "shouted back", the reptilian brains who fed of corporate junk, wins; they started making a meme, playing it back amplified as if it were their idea...we all caught on to these predictable trolls quite a while back. Minorities have known this game (be cool) for along time.
(case in point,the brother on the Daily show, not Wyatt Snenak, can't think of the guy's name..anyway, he does this "Fake out/pull the white guys leg" routine on Stewart all the time).
It is a very subtle, sophisticated game trolls cannot grasp unless WE aren't paying attention; remember, they have a proclivity to steal anything that is not tied down (i.e we talk trash, let them in). Pay attention, keep playing them, nailing them as that cheap lite beer you'd never drink or offer to a friend.
There are way too many of us, the diverse "us", who can easily organize an underground quicker than Sara Palin can down a second glass of Chardonnay on the rocks and, giggle like Bette Rubble. I mean, look at what Rev Billy has done in very a short period of time, or the "Yes Men"; both inspiring others to copy them and pass the message along. Think about all the diversity human, the middle class who attended the Rally this past weekend...
If push comes to shove and, we're short-changed this election cycle, we will see more "underground" flyers, newspapers, social groups surfacing...and we will know one another by our consciousness, which will be very difficult for the hard right to infiltrate since they've never worked on a consciousness, or fail to have one. We will survive unless we are herded into lethargy, helpless, which is what they expect...but remember, NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!! (Well, maybe Father Guido Sarducci, the "priest" who did the benediction at the Rally...he's an old soul).
One more thing...
I and my son voted by mail a couple weeks ago...in order to vote for the local judges to retain, we Google-ed ye olde local, republican party website. The "chosen ones" selected local judges whom they found to be good little "cons" and those considered leftist agenda judges (their term, not mine). Our county's judges' list is extremely arduous and most voters leave that part of the ballad blank; way too overwhelming. But, we passed the site/link to everyone we knew, who passed it on to every dem they knew...easy pickings! Hopefully, it will pay off.
Cheers...
SinghX