So, the Rally to Restore Sanity was this weekend and while I didn't actually attend or watch the festivities on the TV I am liking the responses that are coming from it. Andrew Sullivan has a nice take.. particularly these bits:

The point, it seemed to me, was that politics isn't all there is to life, there is something slightly off about those who think it is, and that political ideology has come to define us culturally and personally far too much. So this wasn't an angry rally for the alienated Democratic left; or even a joyous rally like last fall's March for Equality; or a desperate and frustrated rally like the Tea Partiers. No one was demanding their country back; they were just demanding, well asking, for a little less polarization, and a little more mutual understanding. It was an Obama rally that didn't want to be an Obama rally. And it was only an Obama rally sotto voce because he seems currently the only adult in Washington with any interest in compromising with anyone.

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Is this actually a politics?

Not if one compares it with, say the Perotistas of the early 1990s, or the Beckians of August (almost all of whom will surely be voting Republican on Tuesday because to do otherwise is the end of all American liberty for ever). But it is an identity politics: proud of being educated, sick of being stereotyped, interested in facts and reality, fed up with being condescended to ... and deeply worried about the direction in this country.

Of course, political musings are nowhere near as entertaining as the onslaught of ironic signs that were present. No matter how the actual event turned out, I'm still entirely pleased at the thought of a rally to bring people together under the umbrella of rational thought, compromise and less investment in the world of political extremities.