So am I.
I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. There are things we can do to preserve what's worth preserving but it's like fighting foreign wars: pick your battles carefully, be pragmatic, do what's necessary. Don't deceive yourself about what lies around you or ahead.
The prevailing culture will have to change, radically, for what most of us here call Liberty to survive much longer. How is that going to happen? What are the good scenarios for constructive change?
McCain is a good example of a non-realist. He's got Big Media against him; they've already elected Obama. Is McCain therefore appealing, by all means possible, with all passion possible, to that half of America that might hear a message of Liberty? Or is he pandering? Is he wobbly and off-message much of the time? Does he care enough? I've said before, I will say again: All he has to do to win is lay out for Americans what life under an Obama Presidency is going to be like for them and their children, dramatizing that scenario with specifics.