I get the feeling that this is like the time just before the party when you've got everything ready and you're waiting for the guests to arrive and you can't help thinking, "what if nobody comes?"
Well, I think somebody will come and I'll tell you why. I don't think there's anything more rewarding in life than the feeling you get when someone agrees with what you've been thinking without your having made any effort to convince them or even brought the subject up.
And the reason it's so rewarding is because when two people come to the same conclusion about something independently, it's the closest you'll ever get to knowing the truth. Each person's thought, arrived at through different perceptions, validates what the other has thought.
That, I think, is the reason Howard Dean has caught on with so many people. In expressing what so many people were thinking, and thinking they were alone in thinking, he's confirmed for them that they were right. What he's saying isn't true because they've been taught to believe it, but because it's what theyve experienced. They don't have to believe (that there are WMD or not); they KNOW. And the knowledge they shared first with Howard Dean and now with so many others, is the truth.
And that's why no matter how often Kerry, in particular, tells them the same thing, they are not going to believe him. Because they've already heard the truth and the truth doesn't know how to come out of John Kerry's mouth. Whether Edwards can speak the truth of experience is yet to be seen.
I'm pretty sure that this is the first thing I've ever written that's made me cry. It just feels so right.
Posted by Hannah at March 1, 2004 09:31 AM