Is America doomed?

Question

with the way current elections are going, is there a chance that America saw its last elections?

Answer 1

Of course not.

BUT if you're a member of the U.N. or al Qaeda, you're probably toasting to champaign or perhaps wiring a few extra bombs in celebration.

Thank the liberal media for the result last night. The last 5 weeks of scandal mongering brought it about.

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Jim W, your party won the House last night and you're still angry, LOL. Old habits die hard?

Answer 2

We have all had the feeling of personal doom but to the degree it has become motivation answers this concept.
Being free loses meaning as we watch the two-party system create hugh costs to maintain their polarizing relationship. When so many of their values are sacrificed for election procedures, society will get short-changed to the max. Because so much goes into the fight, we can hardly expect peace. Lost is respectability of the game.
If it could only be more like a primary and the candidates could respect their opponents. Remember how West Wing ended with Alan Alda being hired by his rival? Would McCain have kept his party (and elections) more respectable?
Watching the parties weaken to this procedure should inspire a better kind of networking. By reading this are you voting to give the blogosphere credit?

Answer 3

woo-hoo-hoo-woo-hoo-hoo...
Oh, pardon me for a sec, I was doing my happy dance there...:)

Doomed? Why of course not! On a purely personal note, we've tossed out the corrupt bungling nincompoops who've ruined the economy, run up the national debt to record levels, tried to legislate a morality even they don't abide by, and tried to scare the American people into "compliance" for six years now. Yahoo!

But looking at the "big" picture: America works best when all sides get their say on issues, and law and policy are compromises that work for the majority of Americans without damaging the minority. The only way that happens is when both of the major parties have a say in what happens. I'd have no trouble when, in 2008 after a democratic presidential win, one or both houses of congress goes back republican. That tension between the two parties, that need to not toe a dogmatic party line to get things done, has always resulted in better law and less extreme policies.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely -- as the republicans in power have clearly shown the last 6 years. Time for a more balanced approach, which this election will give us. Yippee!

Answer 4

Ok we could have called you Un-American before the election, we didnt because we believe running on issues. We won, get over it. Isnt that what you've been saying to our side for 12 years? And this one wasn't even stolen for a change, no wonder who won. But now it is official, you are out of the mainstream with America, you ARE UN-AMERICAN

Answer 5

I really doubt that it's going to be that bad. I'm kinda disappointed in how things turned out for the people I was rooting for, but it's not the end of the world. Even if some world-altering event were to happen, I don't think it would be something that would take place overnight. Unless of course, we're talking about nuclear weapon attacks. Or apparently, planes as well.

The shifting of majority between the Reps and the Dems is a normal, beneficial event. By going back and forth occasionally, it keeps both parties from trying to enact anything too terribly extreme for too long.

Answer 6

Yes, because we are totally unaware of what is going on in the rest of the world and we have been led to believe that our way is the only way. We are not superior, we are not smarter, we are not the best and until we start to recognize that there are other equally important values in the world and begin to respect others, we will continue to be hated and attacked for our unfair foreign policies.

Answer 7

why are you people so scared of a government that works like it is supposed to.. have you forgotten that you still control the judicial and the executive branches? this election returned the balance of power allowing our nation to get back on track.. no one political party is supposed to have control of all 3 branches and the past 6 years have shown us why yet again.

Answer 8

America is not doomed. America is tired of the lies and betryal Bush and his Administrative have produced. For me its not about Democrats and Republics its about people and what they stand for. My brother went over to Iraq to times. Lord willing he made it home safe. Unforunately alot of troops didn't and they won't. There was no reasonable explanation for war. Its time we start speaking up and making changes for the better of the world

Answer 9

Under what grounds? Last I heard, the Conservatives had all three branches of government and got nothing accomplished. Yet we take one, ONE, and leave you two and you still complain? If, and that's a serious "if", the country gets worse, then, and only then, will I reply to your empty bitching with an actual answer.

Answer 10

No, becouse the newly elected Democratic house has two years. If they screw related to national security then they'll feel heat. No democracy is alive and well.

Answer 11

I think nothing is going to change. Democrats and republicans are like Mc Donald's and burger king. They're the same unhealthy food.