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after Barack Obama is out of office, either because he'll lose to the Republican nominee in 2012 (unlikely considering who their front runners are) and leave office in January 2013, or if he wins next time and his second term runs out in January 2017?
I, for one, think that they most likely will, regardless of who is in the White House after Obama. They most certainly will if it's another President who isn't a white male (think Bill Richardson or Nancy Pelosi), they probably will if it's a white male that they don't agree with (such as Democrats Joe Biden or Chris Dodd, or even centrist Republicans like Tom Ridge or Rudy Giuliani), and probably even if the President is a wingnut like Newt Gingrich. To these extremist nutcases such as Scott Roeder, the Unitarian church shooter, the Pittsburgh cop-killer or the Holocaust Museum shooter, it doesn't matter who the President is, which party controls the Senate or the House, or which way the Supreme Court's justices lean. Lest we forget, the Unitarian church shooting was when George Dubya Bush was still in office.
The inauguration of our first African-American President is probably just one reason why these crazies are acting out, and in my opinion, is what put them over the edge. I get the primary feeling that for these wingnuts, their world is collapsing around them. The members of Generation Y are mostly a very tolerant and a very multicultural generation; the antithesis of the wealthy straight male WASP, and often racist, sexist and homophobic viewpoints put out by these wingnut extremists. Our society is becoming more tolerant, more accepting, and more multicultural. And that's something that is not going to change, regardless of who the forty-fifth President will be. And Obama's successor will likely be somebody that hardcore social conservatives, racists, homophobes and misogynists will probably not take a liking to. Every two years, several million more members of Generation Y reach voting age, and have tended to become much more politically active than previous generations. And most likely, they will overwhelmingly support another candidate with Obama's tendencies. I myself a member of Generation Y; most of the people from my generation that I know are Democrats and supported Obama last November, and of the ones that are Republicans and supported McCain, most of those are national-security oriented and/or lower-taxes type. They could care less about the issues that social conservatives whine about. Even with regards to immigration issues, none of them that I know are upset by the fact that large numbers of Mexicans and other Hispanics are coming here.
Simply put, the worldview of these radical wingnuts is collapsing before their very eyes. Sure, a black President in the here and now pushes the buttons of these guys since a lot of the violent extremists are racist; but I think another component of it is the mere fact that America would even elect a black man. These guys realize that the culture war is more or less lost; even James Dobson realizes this for goodness sake! Their vision of straight male WASP exclusivity is gone forever. As a result, and I think we're starting to see this already, some of these wingnut extremists are feeling that if they aren't going to win the culture war, then they can at least take some of the opposition down with them when they lose. It's the same mentality that drove the Japanese to commit suicide attacks against the Allies in late 1944 and in 1945 and the Ku Klux Klan to commit acts of racial terror after the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed. It is very, very scary indeed...and I fear that it is only going to get worse. Because regardless of whomever is the President after Barack Obama, the tolerant and multi-cultural society they so despise will still be in existence and still growing.
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