2010 will continue the trends from 2009, and what a year that has been. As predicted, the conservatives have attempted to impede progress and succeeded only in further marginalizing themselves. At this writing, in late summer, they show no signs of waking to reality and morphing into a viable new form, but are continuing to pander to the most regressive elements and losing ground with the middle of U.S. society. We’ll see how that works out for them. If they continue on this path, the mid term elections this November will likely be devastating. However, also as predicted, liberality has its own problems. The far left sulks and threatens revolt as unrealistic expectations are not met fast enough to suit it. The Obama administration is taking things slow and careful and at times seems not to understand that it is indeed in power. But it is not Obama letting the left down, but the opposite. The campaign did not end with the election, but continues on through the entire eight years of his presidency. All of liberality has been slow to come to believe in itself again, but the tide has shifted back to the prevailing wind. It was a long dark period from the early ’80s to the present. It’s understandable that, especially for younger people who have never

known anything different, so many are taking so long to trust that the Sun does shine again.