Pretty soon Barack Obama will be gone, never again to run for office (well, maybe the next president will nominate him to the Supreme Court), and you will have to face the fact that you will have lost a whole decade of your life passing around conspiracy theories and whipping yourself into a frothy frenzy of hatred. All of you have lost friends, poisoned relationships with family members, and some of you may have even lost your jobs or your marriages due to your irrational behavior and obedience to an unending fountain of partisan propaganda.
You lost that decade wailing about Obama, the Communist Muslim socialist atheist Nazi dictator who was going to let the UN invade America, or install Sharia law. And don't forget the time wasted on failed conspiracy theories regarding death panels, birth certificates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton coming to confiscate your treasured guns, Iraq's non-existent WMDs, and BenghaziBenghaziBenghazi. Even your partisan obfuscation failed.
Just think of what you could have accomplished if you hadn't wasted all that time.
You could have gotten a college degree, written a book, run your first marathon, or built a boat and sailed it around the world. You could have learned to speak another language -- wait, probably not.
You kept waiting for Obama to be impeached or for the GOP candidates to "take off the gloves." But they never did because your favorite stories were hoaxes, and the GOP can't take those hoaxes further because they can't impeach a president or win the White House based on hoaxes. No doubt you were also waiting for someone, anyone, in the White House to be indicted or arrested, like all those people indicted, convicted and jailed under Nixon, Reagan and Bush. But no dice.
Many of you will never recover from this experience. Physically and mentally, your health is possibly worse for having lost a decade to a frenzy of hatred. Your ability to reason may be permanently compromised, and nobody really wants to listen to your opinions any more anyway. Yes, you can successfully annoy the waitress at the diner, because she can't run away from a customer, but that doesn't mean she agrees with you or is even listening. Some of you will be going into nursing homes because people gave up on you a long time ago and nobody can stand to listen to one more day of your bleating about Saul Alinsky, who's been dead since 1972, or, sadly, the late Vince Foster.
Some of you have no doubt suffered financially from all the time you wasted hating Obama. But some of you may be forced to admit to yourselves that you have actually done very very well under his "anticapitalist," "communist," "dictatorship." You do know that the economy usually does much better under Democrats, right? Stock market way up. Deficit way down. Profits way up. Joblessness way down. GDP growth up considerably. All this is just the opposite of results during twelve years of the curiously lionized Bush family.
The upcoming years would be a good chance to start making amends to your friends and families, trying to rebuild relationships with the offended people in your life. Yes we know there's another election coming right up, and you could choose again to dive down the rabbit hole of insanity, but you could also choose to leave your families with a few memories of you acting like a normal human being. Of course, this being America, that's your choice.
And, if eventually there is another GOP president, bear in mind that there will be fatal embassy attacks under the GOP president, just like the dozens of fatal embassy attacks that occurred under previous Republican presidents. The difference will be that Democrats won't be jacking themselves into a frenzy of conspiracy theories, they won't be cheerleading for the terrorists, and they won't be trying to overthrow the US government because they don't like today's headline.
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