Who here thinks it is over for our country if McCain gets elected?

[FormerConservative]

I truly feel we are almost at the point of no return as a country. Things need to change. NOW. If we do not massively reform our public education system, fix our damn economy, and stop waving our cock at the world - I think it will be over.

Our downward spiral may slowly continue, or perhaps we'll drop bombs on one country too many and we'll finally get hit back in a way that'll make 9/11 look like absolute child's play. Either way, we are circling the drain, and, at the moment - people seem inclined to vote for the guy that has policies completely in line with those that got us in this situation in the first place.

Will people fall for McCain's stupid "victory"/hanoi hilton/jeebus platitudes? I'm beginning to think they will. The people I know - even highly educated people - just do not investigate McCain's record or his claims. They hear the talking points (most of them false). They hear the media jacking McCain off and kicking Obama in the balls. The media must be fair, right? Some won't vote for a black man. It scares me.

But, if people fall for this bullshit and elect this man, we'll get exactly the government we deserve.

Sorry for being such a downer, guys, but I really had the feeling watching the Saddleback forum that the average American would just lap up that crap McCain was spewing. "Come back to congress!" says the most absent member of the senate in feigned righteous outrage. You'd think the media would roll their eyes and laugh at comments like this. Nope. They talk about how great his short, simple answers are. Have Americans truly become this stupid? From my own experience, I think perhaps they have. I am saddened.