..you’d think that the world has come to a sudden, shattering halt. At least, if 
you were a Mitt Romney and/or supporter of the Republican party.
And, from a sampling of facebook posts, it appears your average Republican isn’t terribly well informed either – must be from those years of watching Fox news.
President Obama, as we all know, won a resounding re-election, winning both the popular vote by several percentage points, and the electoral college by a significant amount.
If it wasn’t for the fact that many State legislatures used a heavy partisan hand in redistricting, it’s highly likely that the Democrats would have taken the House back as well as not only retaining control of the Senate, but adding two seats.
What the Republicans have consistently failed to get about this election is that America is becoming a nation of brown people. America is becoming much less concerned about who you love or how you love them. American women fought for centuries to gain their rights to vote and to control their own bodies, and the fact that the Republican party has become the party of aging white men and outdated values has everything to do with why they lost not only the Presidential election, but hundreds of other races for local and state offices.
Apparently this upset caught most Republicans by surprise – apparently because they still insist on turning to Fox news as their sole source of “news”. It’s time to get your heads out of that dank and moldy cavern of lies and untruth, stop listening to Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh; time to tell Karl Rove to retire to some place far, far away, and join the rest of the world as we march forward.
Sure, Democrats get things wrong. But when it comes to valuing humans, protecting the weak, supporting people who try hard, and inviting everyone to the table to participate in the American Experience, the Republican party has a lot to learn.
I suspect that had the Republican Party focused more on the economy and less on how to stop women from exercising control over their own bodies, they might have had more success. Ditto for immigration and same-sex marriage.
I’m not one to gloat, but I am relieved. I’m not sure where we would be had Mitt Romney been given control of our military (War in Iran?). Or control of the supreme court (Roe v. Wade?) – and don’t even mention all the old Bush cronies he would have put back in power. That was definitely a wrong turn we made as a country.
The economy is improving, the housing market is rebounding and hopefully we can do something to get unemployment to continue to decline and hopefully more good jobs can be found in more and more communities. We have a better chance of that happening now than had the Republicans prevailed.