Reply #2: I look at it pragmatically

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The ONLY way this country has any hope for advancing on any front at all, health care, environment, jobs.... you name it, is for President Obama to serve two terms. In order to be re-elected he has to find a way to create jobs, and be seen as looking to solve the energy problems short term as well as long term. He has to take a talking point away from the Republicans. I wish we could do away with fossil fuels, clean up the environment, provide health care for everyone, the whole deal; but what gets us there will not fly with most people if it hits them too quickly. So compromise is the only answer. People have been propagandized too way to long to spring big changes on them.

If a Republican gets elected and the media is able to paint President Obama as "another failed democratic presidency like Jimmy Carter" this country is SCREWED! We will see major step backs in every area you can think of, I don't doubt we could fall into a huge depression. This country is full of people who will believe lies and fear tactics, and this country also cannot survive another Republican Presidency right now and still be considered anything close to "first world" by the end of it. We would be lucky if we escaped theocracy imposed by machine gun wielding tea-bagger "morality police", something like the Christian version of Iran. Theocracy for the promotion of corporate interests of course, that disgusting bond of religion and corporate interest is what I believe we have been fighting for so long in this country. I believe it is the money and power behind the whole tea bagger/militia mess we see on TV. Fat preachers telling their minions that God wants them to have guns but not health care.