the outcome of the election

[Kharohz]

Ok.  Hope you enjoy it when your close-mindedness and unilateral thuggery land you in the thick of a nasty, nasty mess.  Trust me, it will happen.  Only a deeper understanding of WHY these complaints are so rampant and violent will preserve the vaunted American standard of life.  Your country is already dependent on China and Japan just to stay afloat.  The EU has a much healthier economic base that is rapidly overtaking your own.  Times are a changing, and it's time for Americans to collectively pull their heads out of the proverbial Cold War oil sands.  You ARE a part of the world. 

The majority of these votes for Bush were votes for single-minded self-determination.  Fear and xenophobia have gotten him another four-year term.  Self-determination is one thing and going it alone is something else altogether.  The time is rapidly approaching at which America WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO GO IT ALONE.  It doesn't seem possible, but trust me, it is.  You are a declining hegemon.  You can remain prosperous and rejoin the international community as a kind of 'superior equal', or you can continue your unilateral race to the crash site.  Canada will be dragged along with you.  Britain might jump out just in time.  I thought that maybe the time had come, and that the people would realize what was really going on in the world.  I guess I hoped for too much.  Seems that it will take the utter decimation of the American world-standing for change to come, but it WILL come. 

Here's hoping that this unreasoning fear doesn't drive AMERICANS, not just their administration, to endorse actions that they may come to regret in the coming century.  I'm very saddened by last night.
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Assuming you actually believe what you just typed, maybe you should worry less about what goes on in the USA and worry more about your own country. ;)