I didn't write this post yesterday, the day after the elections were finished because I figured there would be too many people already posting about the election results, but perhaps lots of people will be talking about it today as well, who knows.
Barack Obama is the next President of the United States. I can't say as that I'm extremely pleased with the outcome, but I'm not going to complain either for a variety of reasons. If John McCain had won, I'd be in pretty much the same boat. I don't think either of them will make that great of a president, and after watching the campaigns and seeing the state of the country, I don't know that the alternatives of Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney would have been all that better in the long run either.
What really gets me entertained however is this prevailing attitude, especially on BYU campus that the end of the world is now near because a black man is president. People, please, get your heads out the the sand and pay attention. He isn't going to bring about the Apocalypse nor the downfall of the United States as a whole. I'm pretty sure all of the fatalistic Obama haters out there are gonna be wishing all they had to deal with was Barack Obama when the Apocalypse shows up someday. Honestly, learn how to think for yourselves for once.
I'm not a big fan of all the ideas that Obama has for changing the country, and I'm pretty sure tha half or more of them won't ever come to fruition, so I'm frankly not all that worried about it. Universal healthcare is a mistake in this country however, that I will say. Everything else... meh, it truly doesn't effect me all that much from what I can see. At the moment I don't make enough money to care about taxes raising or lowering, and I don't own a gun, and so on and so on.
Interestingly, so many people seem to think that their lives are going to go down the crapper because Obama won (although I'm sure it would be the same with an opposite result). Strangely though, people often seem to look past the immediate scope of their lives and how they live to see how it could maybe, possibly, if the stars aligned correctly, and it was a full moon, affect them down the line.
Perhaps I'm the black sheep in the world and nobody else thinks that approach is a bit excessive, but I'm mostly concerned with my immediate future and unless Barack Obama declares martial law and forces me to eat sauerkraut for three meals a day at gunpoint, my current situation, and that of the next 24-36 months is not going to change much. Maybe when the time comes for the 2012 elections I'll be in a life situation where the issues at hand more direclty effect me, but until then, I'd like to have French Toast for dinner.
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