Call it a blasé attitude, but in the long term I’m not too worried (somewhat yes, don't get me wrong). I see it as circular, kind of like fashion; or more like a pendulum. Right now it’s swinging over to the conservative side of the line. The big question for me is: is it a sine wave that’ll continue to swing equally to each side, or is there a dampening force acting upon it so that each swing from conservative to liberal and back is less pronounced and we eventually end up in the middle?

Of course the question then is, is that middle acceptable to both sides? If so, maybe we’ll end up with a fairly even society. If not, then the pendulum will likely continue to swing forever or until something breaks.

As one reporter said this morning, in 1999 Kansas tried this, the voters booted them out the following election, installed a more moderate board, and the decisions were reversed. Let’s see what happens next year. That’ll give a good feel for how the Kansasans… (Kansasians?) really feel about it.