The Hopes and Fears of all our Years are Here With Us Tonight

Tomorrow is what most have been calling the most important election of a lifetime. Perhaps it is, though I have only been around for eighteen years. I am nervous right now, anxious at the possible result tomorrow might bring.

If McCain wins, it will be validation that liberalism is dead in America. Thankfully, McCain won't be able to get anything done with 56-58 democrats in the senate. And guess what else? Roe V. Wade won't be overturned, sorry. Social conservatives will have been tricked again, voting for the ticket that they thought would outlaw sodomy and abortion, and teach abstinence only education across the entire United States. None of that will happen.

Wars will escalate however. Tension will increase with the middle-eastern superpower that is Iran. Fear will be paramount in a McCain administration. Permanent war is a necessary objective for those with power to retain that power.

More will die without cause. We will become more polarized with the rest of the world. Nationalism will reign supreme. Critics will be labeled traitors or worse.

McCain will either be reelected or step down due to age. Palin will win her election, after all, she didn't accidentally hit the nuke button in those four/eight years of being VP.

Or, perhaps Obama will win. Perhaps the United States of America will elect a black man. A black man with the name Barack Hussein Obama. America, with the horrible legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws, will elect a black man. Not only will this be the greatest triumph in American history, but it will be perhaps the greatest triumph in the history of the world. Perhaps you feel this is hyperbolic, and perhaps you are right.

Obama is as smart as it gets. He is a true elite.

But, with electing Obama, fears will always be present. What if he is killed? The first black president the victim of an assassin's bullet. Along with the terrible legacy of slavery, America also holds the terrible legacy of political assassinations. If Obama is killed the darkest cloud of all will be cast upon this nation. I cannot imagine the ramifications.

And, what if Obama is unable to restore this country? What if due to events that may be out of his control, he is viewed as a failure? Racists will feel vindicated. Liberalism will start to die out. We will protract back to the middle ages. Perhaps we will be able to achieve that long awaited theocracy that so many have wished for. Perhaps in the next thirty years.

And if Obama is the next FDR? Lincoln? Our greatest President? Well, I cannot imagine the ramifications of that either. It is far too wonderful of a thought to comprehend for someone who has only really lived through Bush.

If Obama wins, I won't be proud of America. How could I be? Being proud of a country is silly. I will be proud of humanity.