Ok, gave it some thought after watching last night's convention coverage of Michelle Obama, and Sen. Kennedy.
Barack Obama is literally the face of change, and it scares the conservatives to their very core. As this nifty garden book I just got from the library basically stated (and what I learned many times in various business classes), people are scared of change, because it might be a bad thing, so they would rather just do what they think is working, even if it doesn't work very well. Or as I said to Rob last night, "better the devil you know...", and so they would rather have McCain, the devil they believe they know, even if he does continue the Bush legacy, because at least they know that "works" (even badly).
Obama promises a change, and the future actually might be a better world. But that is a scary thing to contemplate for half the population.
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Barack Obama is literally the face of change, and it scares the conservatives to their very core. As this nifty garden book I just got from the library basically stated (and what I learned many times in various business classes), people are scared of change, because it might be a bad thing, so they would rather just do what they think is working, even if it doesn't work very well. Or as I said to Rob last night, "better the devil you know...", and so they would rather have McCain, the devil they believe they know, even if he does continue the Bush legacy, because at least they know that "works" (even badly).
Obama promises a change, and the future actually might be a better world. But that is a scary thing to contemplate for half the population.
Sad, huh?