It is going to get interesting. I see the money thing and the SuperPAC's swinging the election to Romney. You have to realize that most voters have a tinge of racism down deep, and a lot of people voted for Obama because they hated Bush so much. However, with the rhetoric and lies that the right will flood the airwaves with, it doesn't look good for Obama. I'll vote for him even though I'm not happy with a lot of his policies. I think he's taking too much for granted. I'm now more of an independent than a democrat, having seen that evil isn't confined to the Republican camp.
So based on that premise, prepare for a real depression. Learn to be self sufficient. If you are a woman, you are going to feel like you are under attack. Romney is Mormon and Mormon women are told they should be happy being a homemaker and having a lot of kids. The environment will suffer. I don't know where to go to hide from all this, Canada, once a haven for expats is now suffering under a George W. Bush clone named Steven Harper.
There will be little people will notice at first. One thing will be that Washington will start doing a lot more to give corporations more power, as the people in office will be doing their best to stay in power.
No, we survived 8 years of Bush, we waited for a change and elected Obama, we got some change but he was but one man and Congress didn't support him. We then must be prepared for the hardest 4 years in our lives. It isn't going to be pretty and we may need a total overhaul of the Constitution after that. One thing will be that even the dumb people who voted for Romney will be screaming for change next time.
In Wisconsin, democracy died, and money buried it. In the 2012 Presidential election you are going to hear so many lies, so much absolute trash on TV that most people will just shut the TV off and leave it off. I expect to see free speech disappear, so will freedom of assembly. It will be said that these things must be curtailed for safety of the general population, but really they don't want people bring attention to the injustices that are going to be so evident. The 'middle class' was a construct that kept people striving to become higher on the social ladder, well, they just pulled the ladder up. We will all be part of the working class, struggling along, and feeling lucky we have something to eat or a place to sleep.
I see a rise in unions again, it will be a struggle, but people will realize that the union worker isn't overpaid, they will finally see they are underpaid. The disparity will be wider, and we will live much as the Proles of 1984.
Read the description of life and living conditions in the novel 1984 for a preview of life under 4 more years of Republican rule...Posted on Dreamwidth
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