Finally, the Election is Over

I never thought I'd be so happy to see this election be over.  My main problem with it, I think, has been Facebook, but I've had other problems.  Between Obama and Romney, I'm glad Obama won, but believe me, now I will be his biggest criticizer.  We should have primaried Obama, but it's too late for that now.

So, basically, I've been following politics closely since the early part of Obama's first term.  The whole while, I've been criticizing Obama for being too right wing.  He was a terrible negotiator, giving Republicans more than they asked for, and going so far, that even Boehner said he gave them 98% of what they want.  Oh, and by the way, that grand bargain is coming again early in the second term, but that's a whole separate topic.

So, let me lay out the timeline:  For about two years, I was criticizing Obama for being too right wing, not doing enough to help the poor, and doing too much to help wall street. Then, the republican primaries started, and I was laughing at all the candidates.  In a time when people were angry at corporations, they were literally worshiping them, and I figured there was no way anyone could take these clowns seriously.  Then, slowly but surely, everyone began posting their uninformed opinions on Facebook.  You have to see this from my point of view; I had been closely following everything that was going on, then a wave of people who literally just starting learning about current political events started tying to argue with me, and over crazy things.  I had expected everyone to have looked at the facts, and come to the same conclusion I did, that Obama was a fake progressive, and had actually put together 3 and a half years of right wing policies (it's funny I would have thought that in hindsight).  But, instead, I got people saying Obama was a socialist and an over spender.  Huh?  The rich had gotten richer, and the poor had gotten poorer.  Do these people even know what socialism is?  (As it turns out, most of them don't).  And Obama had not only decreased the annual deficit for $1.1 trillion to $1 trillion, but he'd overseen the smallest rise in spending since Eisenhower.  How ironic then that people would praise Reagan.

It was embarrassing how little people knew, and in my attempt to point out facts, I looked like an Obama supporter.
"Obama's a socialist."
"Actually, he didn't really do that much to..."
"OBAMA SUPPORTER!"
"What?"

But now that the election is over, people will go back to ignoring politics, and I can once again own the monopoly on politic posts on my Facebook community.  It's funny, I actually felt guilty when people would complain about all the political posts, and I had to keep reminding myself that I actually wasn't doing anything  different, it was everyone else that had changed.

I'm glad I went through this experience.  I will continue criticizing Obama, and, on top of that, I will be looking for a third party candidate, just spite those people who think they're savvy for waiting until the month before the election to act like they support Gary Johnson.  In all honesty, we won't have a third party candidate until we fix money in politics, which will still be my biggest concern for the foreseeable future.

Obama and Romney are basically the same person, the biggest difference is on social issues and which supreme court justices they'll choose.  But they both go where the money is, Romney is just incredibly transparent in his flip-flops, as opposed to Obama, who's good at pretending to fumble the issue.

Over the next four years, expect the grand bargain with 90-99% of what Republicans want in it.  Expect the XL pipeline to be finished.  Expect few to no wall street bankers to get arrested.  Expect the income inequality gap to continue rising.  Basically, expect the continuation of slight variations on Bush policies.