The future according to today’s media experts

We began the 2007 fall NCAA football season with good humor and expectations based on personal knowledge, personal prejudices, and expert opinions. Now four weeks into the season all has changed. The team picked to be number five, and maybe a National Champion, isn’t even rated.

So how can we with our personal knowledge, personal prejudices, and today’s experts opinions predict the 2008 fall NCAA football season?

Yet so many predict the November 2008 political elections, confidently. Perhaps this voter should not even care, or show up. Ha! Just where do these expert people get their Chutzpah so far ahead of November 2008. Many suspect they listen to those they hire and pay for and listen to, political manager or politician or pundit inside of DC. After all, conventional wisdom has always worked before. Why not now?

Perhaps we Americans can be fickle. Perhaps we are worried about our future? Perhaps conventional wisdom has got us to this point? Perhaps our families and future has trumped political advertising and talk? Who knows, but these are good guesses. And National preservation issues seem to rise up to the top of the heap. National preservation can be translated to American culture.

Maybe even those who cannot even reliably predict the fall of 2007 NCAA football can still predict the fall of 2008 elections, in spite of all the money they earn. There is a shift going on, since they cannot predict what we Americans trust. The modern buzz word is tipping point. And the change will go past 2008, but whoa be to those who get in the way.

One prediction is reliable. Represent the people.