Reaction to Politics thread

I totally agree with what both of you have been saying. I personally think the constant analysis and talk about the election is getting too much and it has now reached a point where there needs to be a cooling off period. All we have heard on the news for the last 18 months is about the election and what is likely to happen, and now that it has been decided, all we are hearing is speculation about the future. There seems to be continual rhetoric about what is going to go wrong and what the problems are going to be in the next four years, and I think that it is turning America into a very pessimistic nation.

Now that the vote has been decided I think that we need to rally behind Obama and give him our total support for when he enters into office, rather than trying to find the flaws in his administration. We are already in hard times, but if we constantly try to look for and speculate about the problems that exist, things are going to get no easier and we as a society are never going to be happy. Obama won by such a large margin, that the country should be strongly behind him, yet I have the impression that we have now become weary of what the next four years may bring.

I would say that this negative talk needs to first stop with the media, as I think they have a great deal of power influencing the thoughts of the masses. I think if they end their constant discussion, criticism and speculations, it will allow us as a nation to stop reacting to the events that have been occurring. I think the society needs to now accept what has happened and instead of discussing how the first black President will fit in, give him time and just wait to see what will happen. Otherwise I think that Obama is fighting a losing battle before he even starts, and I think that the American population will quickly become dissatisfied with him, whether his actions are beneficial or not.

With regards to Prop 8 I also feel the same way, and think that it is something that needs no longer be discussed. At the end of the day, the Proposition was passed by Californian citizens, and therefore it is obviously the outcome that the majority of citizens in this state wanted. Now that the vote has been determined, nothing more can be done, so the constant discussion and tension surrounding it is in my eyes ultimately pointless. I think that instead talk should turn to the future, and the people of this nation should try to discuss active methods that can get us out of this global crisis we face, so that ultimately the American nation will be able to prosper overall.