Well the results are in. The stupidest fucktards in America went out and voted to take back our country. As a result more Republicans are now in charge of making decisions for us.
If there is one thing that will always surprise me about America it is how an elitist right wing party that panders only to corporations and millionaires, manages to appeal to some of the most stupid, poorest, and ignorant people in our society.
Back in my home country of England, it's almost impossible to find a poor person who votes Conservative (the closest equivalent to Republicans). Poor people understand that generally the politics of the right wing will do nothing but hurt poor and middle income people. Yet here in America some people just aren't getting the memo.
When you look back over the record of the Republican government (and I'm not talking ancient history, just the last ten years), it is clear that they are a bunch of fuckers. They stood by as our nation came under attack. The Commander in Chief at the time did nothing after he was told we were under attack. Eventually we entered two wars, with party leadership lying to the American people about this being a short and cheap skirmish, and just to go about their everyday lives. We racked the trillion dollar cost of this war on our Chinese credit card, and gave tax breaks to corporations and the wealthiest 1-2% of Americans.
Then Republicans did nothing after Katrina except threaten to shoot black people who were 'looting' for food and water to survive. In fact to this day whole neighborhoods are still in ruin.
As Bush's reign of terror came to an end the Republicans steered our country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and jumped ship.
Then as President Obama tried desperately to fix the mess they had left, Republicans tried to block him at every turn, refusing to allow him to appoint key government workers, and blocking just about every law change they could, including voting against Republican policies.
In the meantime the Tea Party sprang up, wanting to take their country back, whatever the fuck that means. Back into a depression? Back into unfinanced wars? Back to slavery and segregation? Back to a time when our President was a fucking idiot?
Finally in the midterms they took back the House, ensuring that President Obama will get even less done in the next two years. The very people who will be hurt by this, helped vote them into office.
Around the world, America has a reputation for having many stupid people living on its shores, and with an outcome like this, it certainly leaves a lot of people scratching their heads.
America is heading down a very dark road, that leads to a very bad place. We seem to be shunning intelligence, education, science and facts, and in their place we are embracing stupidity, ignorance, religious fanaticism, and radicalism. If you want to see where we are headed, take a trip to Iran or Afghanistan.
If there is one lesson we can take from last night it is never underestimate the power of the stupid. But unless we fix our education system our society will continue to dumb itself down and people will happily vote against their own self interests, because they are just too ignorant to know better.
It's a sad day in America today.
