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In the new political age known as the “Bush almost isn’t President anymore” we have a chance to change the political and social climate for good- and when the next political age dawns, “the Democrats are in control of Congress, watch out” we’ll have even more of a chance.  I’m not talking about passing laws or balancing budgets.  Those things matter, but not as much as education and involvement.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve witnessed alternately overly optimistic and pessimistic outlooks on the upcoming Obama administration.  Yes, Obama is a democrat and he won.  Neither of those things means the world is going to end in a nuclear holocaust or that the United States will become a magical place where everyone lives in harmony and mansions.

What it does mean is that people wanted to try something new.  Enough people wanted not a republican that Obama won with an overwhelming majority of electorial votes and with a few million extra popular votes.

What happens next won’t be extreme, or polarizing, or magical. But the opportunity will exist to study ourselves closely and decide what happened and how to fix it. My solution would be to teach kids (in like, kidnergarten) the precious skill of discernment.  Believing in something because someone told you so is not a new phenomenon, but we really have to learn how to ask questions.  Blogs are not credible news sources, and while they are interesting, they’re editorial.  Some people take every word spoken on the radio or written on the internet as gospel and refuse to question it.  Maybe letting little kidnergarteners ask more questions would help them grow up into people who don’t pass along Obama chain mail?

Enduring any political propaganda boring and annoying, but when people believe whatever they hear it gets dangerous.