Well, not really, but my most proximate concern is the solid month or two (or forty) of gleeful, cackling, smug, overbearing, overreaching, rub-your-face-in-it triumphal glee from the more loathsome members of the Right. Your Limbaughs and your Bartons and your Dobsons and your Malkins and your Coulters and your Fischers and your Roves and your … well, you know the type. Not everyone who votes Republican. But those guys (and gals) and their hyper-partisan ilk specifically.
Yeah, lots of policy fears and all of that … but that's the part I'd really hate ….
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If you are a woman, have brown skin, GLBT or just middle class, you have to fear the unparalleled hell that would about to be unleashed by a Romney administration. That is all.
+Dave Hill what are you doing listening to Rush, anyway? If word of this gets out, they may pull your Liberal card from you 😛 Seriously, though, I think what you're more likely to hear from the majority of the 'loathsome members of the Right' is sound relief that we don't have to endure another four years of Obama. Just my view, though.
+Chris Pitchford Hyperbole much? Wow.
+Mark Means — he is, at times, unavoidable. I usually have to turn him off within a minute or two, lest I break my radio or drive into oncoming traffic.
No, in all seriousness, I think you will hear from that crowd a gloating McGloatiness that will make the earth tremble. And it will go on for years.
+Chris Pitchford — as noted, I wasn't talking policy concerns. I also wouldn't say "unparalleled" (since Romney, Ryan, and the GOP's idea of the society to aspire to was already in place as the Gilded Age in the 1870s-80s).
On the other hand, if America doesn’t become the utopia they seem to expect, it will be amusing to see them scramble to justify the lack of improvements. Will they suddenly decide that the deficit isn’t really important after all? Will they blame liberals if unemployment doesn’t shrink? Or will they suck it up and admit they’re wrong? (Ha! Sometimes I crack myself up!)
Of course it will become a utopia (for certain values of “utopia”).
And I have no question in my mind that (a) they will cherry-pick the numbers that make their side look good, (b) blame any problems on the opposition who are holding them back, (c) make it clear in 2016 that this is no time to pull away from the successful course that has brought the DJIA to 15000.
(To be fair, I expect either side to do the same.)
Wow, somehow I wrote something both hyperbolic and reflective of the historical condition of the 99%. I'm on a roll, people!