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Obama Being Elected and the Worst of your Fears Coming True

A sarcastic note about political fear after Obama was elected.

It's worse than you thought now that Obama is elected! Get ready, because there is a lot you didn't know

 

This was written with a bit of sarcasm, because the fear around Obama being elected was so far out of proportion to reality. Every election brings warnings that the country is about to fall apart, but some of the reaction to Obama was especially revealing.

The interesting question is not just whether people disagreed with him politically. Disagreement is normal. The more important question is why so many people were ready to believe the worst possible stories before anything had actually happened. That kind of fear says as much about the country as it does about any candidate.