The Aftermath ?

[kentuck]

Now, I believe President Obama is going to win the popular vote and also, the electoral vote by a closer margin, and I do believe he is going to win the election.

However, being the hard-core realist that I am, I do understand that Mr Romney could find a way to win the election. Simply because, they have done it before. It is nothing new to them. Elections are to be won, by hook or crook. They rationalize their illegal activities by assuring each other that they only do it because the Democrats do it. But, for some odd reason, it seems that every time we hear of graft or fraud, it is on the Republican side?

So, whichever way the election turns out, there will be hell to pay. Neither side will rush to accept the legitimacy of the other. The press is in a pickle. They want to promote the Party that will prevent chaos and violence but they have no idea which Party that is at the moment?

The aftermath of this election will not be pretty. Although the Democratic Party will have members that ask to reconcile their differences. Because they are good moderate, rational Democrats. But only time will quell the bitterness of a defeat of this magnitude of hatred and distrust.

It will take a strong leader to keep this country from boiling over, in my opinion. The hatred, the name-calling, the lies, have taken their toll, on both Parties. They have lost respect, decency, and the desire to communicate and find compromise with each other.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Now you see why I expect violence?

Though I am not looking forwards to it.

[kentuck]

2. Neither am I, nadin...

It will take a true leader to prevent the feelings and emotions from boiling over, in my opinion.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. It does

Hugs

[kentuck]

4. True

[defacto7]

5. I appreciate your post...

and I also am concerned about the aftermath. There have been many threads passing around the Internet that are not conducive to civil reaction to an Obama reelection. I suppose you could call it over reaction but there has been so much hate pumped into less than perceptive people throughout our country, by hate radio mostly. Now, there is so much racism and prejudice in this election period that it's like hurricane Sandy... a convergence of 3 major storm fronts, high tide at full moon, and a jet stream all of unprecedented conditions. We don't have a clue as to the outcome of this storm but we can see it's likely scenario. Same with the convergence of hate, ignorance, injustice, treason, acts against humanity and the undoing of the US Constitution versus our most basic human rights and freedoms.

This political theater will be a storm to contend with and we need to be prepared for anything that would undermine the hopes we hold dear.

[quinnox]

6. not worried - if something that extreme would have been a possibility, it would

Have happened in the monumental fuck up known as the 2000 election. If any election could have pushed the country over the edge, that was it.