We will survive the next four years.

Well, the election is over and Barack Obama will be president for a second term. I can’t say I’m not surprised. I am honestly very surprised. A guy at work described the situation from a business perspective. If you hire someone who does not do a good job, you do not let him sign another four-year contract. You tell him to get lost. Apparently, the majority of Americans are feeling generous with their country’s immediate future. I know it’s the season of giving, but I think the nation went a bit over-budget this year.

I frankly try to steer clear of politics in general because I don’t like all the stubborn one-sided views of all the party members. I consider myself Republican because I mostly agree with the views of Republican candidates and disagree with the Democrat ones. That does not mean that I think that every Democrat is a lying, thieving lump of evil. Some of them are. Some of the Republicans are, too. You take the good with the bad. I did not vote for Obama and am not happy that he is keeping the office, but nothing is going to change by whining about it. My controversial political view is that you vote in the way you think is right and let the results be. It’s out of our hands now.

This is why I don’t spend my life obsessing over issues of politics. It’s not that I don’t care about what’s going on in the country, but I don’t see the point in getting all wild and angry about everything that happens I don’t agree with. The whole point of our American freedoms is that we are able to vote for whomever we want, and America wanted Obama even though I didn’t.  At least I did have a choice, unlike so many others in the world.

We will survive the next four years. For all I know, they’ll be fine. They also may very well be awful, but the nation is not going to crumble beneath our feet, we will not turn into The Hunger Games and I seriously doubt Obama is the Antichrist. What I do know for sure is that whoever the American people vote into the office of our country’s leader, that person demands our respect, whether or not we like or agree with him. I guess that’s all I have to say about the matter and I would like to make it quite clear that I have no desire to debate my opinion with anyone. You have yours and I have mine, and I will not be responding to any hate mail.

Now then, I saw Cloud Atlas again last night and I’ll have lots to say about it tomorrow, so don’t change that dial.