My greatest fear for this election

[silverthorne]

Is not even if McCain gets into the White House.

What frightens me most is if Obama gets in.
Not because I don't want him there (hell no, I want him in there so bad I can taste it).

What I fear is the same thing that happened to Kennedy.

What I fear is that 2 months, 2 years, possibly 2 terms down the road, someone kills him.

I can promise you; with as crazy as people are acting over the whole deal, if he gets killed, it'll be taken to the streets. At least, that's what I fear will happen.

And that's it for me on the political front for the day; I've already had to hold my tongue from saying 'Don't you mean 'uppity' when someone called Obama 'arrogant', and from laughing in someone else's face when they were 'if he gets in, we'll become a socialist country!' (I almost told them 'Good--maybe the change will straighten us out!').

So yeah, time to check the bloodpressure at the door, I early voted (here's hoping they don't find a way to invalidate those votes), so I'm done for the day. Tomorrow, I'll either cry or dance (and start praying, either way).

Comments

[kizery.livejournal.com]

I have the exact same worry :/. Someone like Obama brings out the best and the worst in this country.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and your comment just made me realize something else;

Unhappy idiots may take it to the streets anyway as soon as he wins. :/

Gah.

[janewt.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. The bizarre fear that people have of him-- "Terrorist!" "Baby-killing Muslim!" "I've heard about him, he's an Arab!"*--strikes me as a kind of ugliness that can turn dangerous. But here's hoping that sane people remember their sanity and that the lunatics don't get lucky.


*all things seen or heard in AP coverage

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

What chaffs my hide about the 'he's a Muslim!' thing is that they're instantly linking Muslim with terrorism (something ugly that's already been done in the aftermath of 9/11, in case people have already forgotten what a lot of things American born Muslims went through at the hands of other Americans during that time). And ultimately, at the base level, that would have nothing to do with being a terrorist, even if he was one (Muslim, not terrorist). Who cares, as long as he's doing his job as president?

(Answer: people who think one automatocally equals the other, and those who want to use that assumption to play on peoples fears and prejudices.)

[janewt.livejournal.com]

I know. It's shocking to me that people think there's anything remotely acceptable about offering "he's Muslim" as a complaint against a candidate. What? So? And maddening that a candidate should be obliged to prove anything at all about his religion. And argh, the whole emphasis in the last several years on America as a Christian Nation just breaks my heart and AUGH AUGH AUGH. It's a whole ugly little tangle of color-based racism, must-be-Christian religiosity, and Islam=terror. Guh.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it's not shocking to me, because 'He's (fill in the blank with whatever group you fear most)' has always been used to a greater or lesser extent. Just that this time, the 'hot button' (racism/terrorism) is pretty obvious, and a lot more people feel confident in using it, for some ungodly reason.

As for the whole 'America is a CHRISTIAN nation'...we didn't start that way, but the most dominent people in power edged it that way to try and 'normalize' everything out (and, let's face it, to keep certain groups and immigrants 'under control'), and although the attitude of 'well we've grown as a nation and accept all types now' was prevailent for a very short time, the people who mouthed the words (but usually added 'as long as we're still in control' under their breath), realized that the hold was slipping, so started blaming every short coming on 'a lack of God' (as if following any variation of God/Gods/Whatever is really what makes you moral choices for you, rather than, you know, having the capability of making decent choices on your own, regardly of what you believe in), and it showballed. And unfortunately, most of the biggest promoters of that mindset are people we put in power and kept in power, either willingly or unknowingly.

And now they don't want to give it up.