What a difference a few hours makes
Listening to Obama's acceptance speech puts your post in its proper perspective: small.
You think that the prospect of the election of a black man as President is a sign of decay and the beginning of a decline into chaos.
I take it as a sign that there's hope yet for America, that, as the current Democratic formulation would have it, "America's best years are still ahead of us".
And I have to admit, knowing your opinion on matters of race, there's a tiny frisson of satisfaction at the thought that your head is likely to explode on November 7th.