---
title: Moving on
categories:
- culture
content-tags:
- politics
- government
- usa
---

Since most have realized that [running is not viable][1], the blogosphere is becoming rife with suggestions for getting through the next four years.  I'm [calling for some Presidential containment][2], but other reactions are noteworthy.

   [1]: /2004/11/04/the-red-scare.html
   [2]: /2004/11/05/can-we-have-some-checking-and-balancing-over-here.html

Many have called on the Democratic party to build infrastructure over the next four years and be [better prepared to communicate][3] in 2008.

   [3]: http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/

Others believe it is time to [start over][4].

   [4]: http://thenextparty.blogspot.com/

Greg Knauss calls for a [return to the age of reason][5] but I agree with [someone][6]'s comment that perhaps [empathy][7] is at a greater deficit; we've got no shortage of [social intelligence][8].

   [5]: http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/11/03/greg_kna.shtml
   [6]: http://compooter.org/
   [7]: http://samvak.tripod.com/empathy.html
   [8]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellian_intelligence

C. B. Shapiro would appreciate it if [red states would kindly secede][9] and leave us alone.  This sounds like a [call for states' rights][10], an issue that seems to be migrating away from the Republican platform now that they control the Union.

   [9]: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/04/my_modest_proposal_t.html
   [10]: http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2004_10_31_dish_archive.html#109950616544439177
