What if Obama loses?

FloridaJim said:
Here is a Letter to the Editor at a newspaper in North Carolina. I think it speaks for itself. There no longer exists a Free Press in America.

Letter to America's editors: To tell the truth, you lied and should be fired
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In my humble opinion, both parties are in this together. What I'm constantly carping out about is not the radicalism of the Democrats (if only ...) but that they are virtually indistinguishable from their rivals. The USA has in effect a one-party system, with two factions in the party. Both are subservient to capital, both have virtually identical foreign policy platforms, both differ only cosmetically on domestic policy. The differences between them relate to nuances in the management of the empire; otherwise both are equally committed to upholding the status quo domestically and internationally. This travesty is called a "democracy."

With this out of the way, it is of course true that the Democrats are equally culpable in the US financial crisis. But this really goes beyond party politics (to the exceedingly modest extent it exists in the US): it is, rather, an inevitable exposure of a deep-seated contradiction in American capitalism: the need to rely on speculative bubbles because of insufficient purchasing power on the part of American consumers and also because of low returns to capital in the real economy. Speculation, asset bubbles, and a casino economy are the natural by-product of the problem of insufficient purchasing power and low returns to capital. In short, had the Democrats and Republicans not deregulated the market (at the behest of their common masters), the crisis we now see would have emerged ten or fifteen years ago (albeit on a smaller scale: speculation and asset bubbles do delay the day of reckoning, but magnify the scale of the delayed crisis).

I treat the presidential election as a red herring, a disingenuously engineered distraction from real and pressing problems. Which figurehead gets elected is immaterial.
 
pericles said:
I have heard from many people in the know that there will be a major issue before the elections causing a postponement . . . .
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I've heard the same but would be shocked were it to occur. I do not think that any national American election has ever been postponed.
 
bigbadwolf said:
. . . Obama . . . . has amassed a war chest that would have even GWB drooling. And . . . his supporters include the super-rich, who presumably will demand some sort of payback. . . .
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From before the American Civil War, when "the slave power" (slaveholders and their associates) were subsumed within it, the Democratic party has furthered the interests of the most of the richest and most powerful within the United States. That's one reason why most "loopholes" within the federal tax code are written under Democrat-controlled congresses, for example. The only surprise to me, as an estate-planning lawyer and former historian, is that the young and naïve are taken in by that party's propaganda that it furthers the interests of the poor (which it may) to the exclusion of the rich, instead of simply to bolster and protect those vested interests. Of course, I too was once young and naïve . . . .
 
There might some civil "issues" in the states, because the National Guard and parts of the Army are being deployed to certain areas of the country.
 
What if Obama Loses? Well, I'm working on being an almost full time expat now, if McCain/Palin take over and my complex expat plans don't work out??? I will find a way to be out of country 95% of the time, no other way..... I'll be gone by 2009......
 
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