I'd like to ask Obama resisters: Are you against the rider or are you against the wave? If you're against the wave, is it because you're against bottom-up energy in general, or are you holding out for a wave that's made up of people as brainy and dignified as Noam Chomsky? I'm sorry, but this is as good as it gets. And if you're against the rider, do you have a better idea for how the energy could manifest? How about through Huckabee? Or maybe you're holding out for a leaderless movement of people replacing the dollar with local currencies and planting fruit trees on land technically owned by banks. That would be great, but what would President McCain do to that movement?

Several people sent me this excellent article about how America is about to have a revolution. The only question is what kind. Obama's candidacy is only one move in a peaceful revolution. If he wins, his supporters will feel their power and take bolder steps on the same path. If that path is blocked enough times, the energy will move to a path of violence -- instead of happily marching to vote, Americans will be angrily marching to break windows and set stuff on fire, and of course being met with full paramilitary force. And when we're kneeling in blood choking on tear gas, we'll be thinking how much better this is than kids with bad punctuation prattling about change while supporting a candidate who's friends with Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Jonestown was the short-lived settlement which was made in northwestern Guyana by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California, and which became lastingly and internationally notorious in 1978, when nearly its whole population died in a mass murder-suicide orchestrated by their leader, Jim Jones. The name of the settlement thus became, also, a term for that incident. The site is now an abandoned ruin.

If the Obama media advisors and spin-doctors are in fact planting swooners at Obama's rallies in order to further the "Obama Rock Star" meme, it's starting to backfire. Another powerful and rapidly-disseminating meme is taking its place: "Obama As Cult." Pundits are going beyond coining such phrases as "Obamapalooza" and "Obama-mania" and are inserting powerful triggering words and phrases such as "drink the Kool-Aid." Allusions to Germany's Third Reich and the orchestrated spectacles of Nietzsche-inspired mass rallies in "Triumph of the Will" filmed by Leni Riefenstahl (www.brightlightsfilm.com...) are being invoked, and the "Utopia Turns Dystopia" meme is festering, just waiting to burst forth.