Saturday 30 October will have an interesting confluence of events: Jon Stewart will hold a Rally to Restore Sanity while Stephen Colbert will host a March to Keep Fear Alive. Stewart soothes,
Ours is a rally for the people who've been too busy to go to rallies, who actually have lives and families and jobs (or are looking for jobs) -- not so much the Silent Majority as the Busy Majority. If we had to sum up the political view of our participants in a single sentence... we couldn't. That's sort of the point.
while Colbert seethes:
They want to replace our Fear with reason. But never forget -- "Reason" is just one letter away from "Treason." Coincidence? Reasonable people would say it is, but America can't afford to take that chance.
Tom Diemer wonders at Politics Daily, "is this actually going to happen?" while Steve Benen opines at Washington Monthly:
For what it's worth, my only concern here is one that I often hear in the media -- the notion that the left and right are equally crazy, and the fringes are driving their respective parties' agendas. That strikes me as a mistaken assumption. Republicans really have moved sharply to the far-right and allowed extremists to call the shots, while Truthers and Code Pink have no meaningful influence whatsoever in Democratic politics.
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