I blame the media for playing up and hyping the divisions. A vast majority of Americans get along just fine regardless of their political leanings, the problems are minor and fleeting. There's no worry about civil war, just a handful of loud people with an outsized loudspeaker and a media that likes it that way.

I know we're not electing a dictator. We're electing someone who feels comfortable ignoring the constitution and original intent.

I just figure Obama would ignore it faster and with more wholehearted cooperation from a socialist congress.

If Obama wins amidst massive voter fraud and blatant favoritism of the media and the Democrats dominate the Congress and the courts, as well as the Presidency and the Federal beaurocracy, what are the chances that we'll have another free and reasonably fair election?
Things will get ugly after this election, the only real question is just how ugly.

This has been on my door through many Wisconsin elections...

Lines For The Day After Elections

by Richard Armour

The sun still rises in the east
The song of skylarks has not ceased
The mountains stand, the seas are calm
I hear no detonating bomb

The banks are open, trains on time
The morning paper's rich with crime
A stream of traffic fills the street
The ground is firm beneath my feet

No cataclysmic conflagration
As yet has swept our luckless nation
No signs of doom have I detected
Although my man was not elected.

Eric, I think you need to panic more.

Obama's primary constituencies are:
1)Radical "progressives", ACORN, etc.
2)The media, content providers (Hollywood, MSM)
3)unions
4)grievance groups (radical black activists, La Raza, NOW feminists, etc.)
5)Wall Street (the former black-shoe investment bankers, not the brown-shoe hedge funds)
6)eco-totalitarians

If we get a Democrat sweep this election, their primary business will be to satisfy these constituencies. Their top priorities will include:

1)the Fairness Doctrine--making it effectively illegal to criticize Democrats in any meaningful, public way. Probably including strict copyright provisions and "content control" to make Hollywood happy. Possibly even incorporating provisions against "racist" or "hate" speech.

2)increased taxes on business and capital gains--making it more and more difficult to get equity funding for new, "risky" technologies. This leads to...

3)onerous lending requirements--incorporate minority (and possibly environmental) set-asides into lending laws, which will effectively be administered by said grievance groups and eco-totalitarians. If you want to start or expand a business, you'll have to pay the "fixers".

4)the Obama "Tax Cut"--will effectively put the bottom 40% on the dole, with a sharply increased marginal tax rate once they reach about $35K income. This will have the same effect as the Great Society, creating a permanent, and growing, underclass.

There's more, but that's the most important stuff. The trick is that these policies create a self-reinforcing, interlocking, ever-growing constituency of tax-eaters.

In two years, we will live in a one-party socialist state, to all intents and purposes. If you doubt me, ask yourself this question--

Who would stop them?

P.S.:

If you don't think they're slick enough to pull that off, be sure to read this top to bottom:

Obama and the Attempt to Destroy the Second Amendment

Excerpt:
"The Joyce directorate’s plan almost succeeded. The individual rights view won out in the Heller Supreme Court appeal, but only by 5-4. The four dissenters were persuaded in part by Joyce-funded writings, down to relying on an article which misled them on critical historical documents.

Having lost that fight, Obama now claims he always held the individual rights view of the Second Amendment, and that he “respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms.” But as a Joyce director, Obama was involved in a wealthy foundation’s attempt to manipulate the Supreme Court, buy legal scholarship, and obliterate the individual right to arms."

I'm inclined to think that a total Democratic landslide is the end of meaningful elections in this country.

The conservatives look totally whipped to me. And Obama and Pelosi and company do not strike me as people who will let wounded opponents live.

Once elections are controlled by fraud and talk radio is ended with the fairness doctrine it is very hard to see how the incumbent regime will ever be dislodged.

Any idea that the fairness rule will be applied when the media favors Democrats is like belief in the Tooth Fairy.

The Supreme Court already has a very liberal bent. Kennedy plays the swing vote because it makes him feel personally important. And it has made him important.

Congress can remove any justice they dislike or enlarge the court. And Congress also has a great deal of unused power to limit the court's jurisdiction.

The filibuster in the Senate is only allowed by a rule. The majority party can abolish it at any time.

If they want a war, let them come. My kinsmen ain't the type to look for violence, but they will not back down if pushed. They learned the hard way. Losing folks like they did in Cambodia and Burma can change your perspective quite drastically.

The kinfolks, Cambodians, Laotians, Karens, and Hmongs among them, really did learn some harsh lessons at the hands of the worst democidal governance. Now that they are armed and free, I doubt that they will back down from those who would threaten them with violence because their guy lost an election.

To hell with being graceful losers.

The liberals have showed us the way over the past ten years. Learn from them. Even if he carries every single state Obama is "NOT MY PRESIDENT." No matter what the vote totals, this election is "STOLEN." He's a crook, an idiot, a madman, and a puppet from the day he takes office. He's responsible for everything that goes wrong, everywhere on Earth for any reason. Anything short of perfection in anything is a TOTAL FAILURE.

Keep repeating it. Keep pounding it. Insert snide remarks about his intelligence, his morals, and his sanity into every conversation, no matter what the topic. Make liberals agree just to shut you up -- eventually they'll come to believe it.

Lie. Facts are only valuable to the degree they're useful. If the facts don't help, make shit up. Appeal to emotion, not reason -- a clever three-word slogan is worth a thousand pages of careful argument.

The liberals have destroyed reasoned debate, civility, and tolerance in politics. Let's show them what they've taught us. If it really is all about naked power, then for God's sake let's get that power for our side.