What is your biggest fear if Romney wins the election?

[kentuck]

You see, the right-wingers know that liberals are totally irrational... You don't understand that things will be much better when we give some more taxcuts to the wealthy. After all, how many poor people have you seen that gave somebody a job?

That is what "they" think. But what do you think?

What do you think will happen if Romney wins the election? Will the world end? Will unemployment go back up? Will we continue to grow ourselves out of this severe recession? Will the Repubs take all the credit if the economy continues to rebound?

If it doesn't rebound and we go back into another recession, of course it would be Obama's fault. Is there any doubt about that?

What do you think will happen with women rights? What do you think will happen to the Supreme Court? What do you think will happen with the deficit? How long before we are hit with another terrorist attack because we have an arrogant asshole in the White House?

[Skittles]

1. Supreme Court will be fucked for the rest of my lifetime

yes INDEED

[Zoeisright]

2. That's it.

Oh, and that the economy will REALLY crash after a year or two of his imbecilic plan.

[Syntara]

22. I agree

He may have knowledge on how to run a private equity firm and the Olympics (with the government's added billions in that venture and of which he has no records to show accountability as to how he spent those government funds).

But he does not have knowledge or experience in the processes involved in managing public policy and a national economy -- its diverse nature cannot be run like a business venture in which a 'bottom line' that makes money for the firm is the whole goal. The government is not in the business of making money. Far from it. It is in the business of managing the people's business and I think for both Romney and Ryan that fact escapes them.

Romney would try to run the country as if it were a business and had a bottom line showing profits. Ryan is intent in seeing that his personal theology beliefs be adopted by the whole country. I saw this in the vice presidential debate when he was asked whether a pro-abortion woman had reason to fear his approach. Did he answer directly? No, he answered by stating what he and his cohorts BELIEVE -- that life begins and conception. In that, he was stating that he would expect the nation to adhere to his beliefs because that's what he would implement.

[FreeState]

4. +1 n/t

[MotherPetrie]

11. Ditto.

[ReasonableToo]

29. agreed n/t

[L0oniX]

31. By far this the worst thing.

Second is that the racist repuke bastards will be embolden.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

62. absolutely

[OutNow]

3. Biggest fear - a new war

The US will be in a major war with Iran within a year of Romney taking the oath of office. And it will be a bigger disaster than Iraq.

[Syntara]

5. My biggest fear?

Actually, I have two... maybe three.

1) That he will lead us into WWIII whether intended or not (and the or not is what I fear most).

2) That he will further bankrupt the nation

3) That he will end and/or bankrupt social programs to ensure they are ended -- within the four years of his term in office.

[Hoyt]

6. S Court as above, more racism/callousness, war, health coverage, and a lot more.

[uppityperson]

7. DU will melt down.

Actually, SCOTUS is the biggest issue

[renegade000]

8. romney will morph into an anodyne centrist

things will slowly get better as they have been, but the GOP will claim all the credit...

he'll even propose some relatively sensible programs that they would have shrieked were "socialist!" if a democrat proposed them...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

67. This is the most likely...

However, the Dems are going to get both houses of congress, so the worst we can expect is a bunch of crying from the right on how the congress isn't doing anything, even though they are and are getting vetoed.

[RiverStone]

9. Beware the dark side Luke...

I'm not gonna entertain fear because I can't fathom a Romney win.

[aletier_v]

10. That I'll have to wear magic underwear for job interviews

[Skittles]

23. STOP IT ALETIER_V

[ailsagirl]

45. LOL!!!

[golfguru]

12. Gloating by republicans

at the golf club. Being a minority democrat, I already am outnumbered in every political debate.
On positive side they might buy me a drink or two to soothe my emotions.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

13. He'll take away Hide Thread.

[elleng]

14. supremes, war, economic disaster,

civil liberties' disasters, health care disasters >>> Difficulty finding suitable place to live in Canada.

[Zambero]

25. My predictions exactly, if Romney were to win

My other prediction is that Romnety will lose on Nov 6th. God help us if I'm wrong.

[elleng]

33. Goodness help that you're right;

I suspect you are AND 'they' can't win w/o thievery, that WOULDN'T happen, but it's SO WIDESPREAD.

[taught_me_patience]

15. He replaces Ginsburg with Scalia 2.0 n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

16. He'll be in office for two terms

So it will be eight more years before we can end this depression.

And SCOTUS will be perma-fucked.

[craigmatic]

17. shit my biggest fear is romney winning the election.

[amborin]

18. Total loss of all national park and wildlands; Global economic collapse; WW3; air like China and Ind

India; massive homelessness and escalated poverty levels affecting up to 1/2 of all Americans; fascism and police state to
control the results; the ignominy of being "lead" by a lying sociopath and a lying cretin

[Arugula Latte]

19. Handmaid's Tale no longer fiction.

[LibDemAlways]

20. I don't think Rmoney can legitimately "win" this election. Stealing it

is much more likely. If that happens, we're screwed. Good-bye health care reforms. Good-bye planned parenthood. Good-bye social safety net. Good-bye income tax deductions that benefit the middle class. Good-bye hundreds of thousands of jobs. Hello more war. Hello extreme right wingers on the Supreme Court.

A year of Rmoney/Ryan might well have us nostalgic for Bush - the worst President of all time.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

69. Can he really do any of that without the backing of both houses of congress?

I mean, the President doesn't have that much power...And if the Dems get both houses of congress, while it will be bad and immensely stupid, it won't be as bad as if they were to have gotten EVERYTHING.

[teddy51]

21. you and i both know that if Romney steals this election

We are screwed.

[reformist2]

24. Privatization of Social Security - i.e., the theft of the $3 trillion trust fund.

[Blue_In_AK]

26. Supreme Court

and another war.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

27. Pretty sure the world will end

[Evergreen Emerald]

28. That I am economically fucked.

Job, wage, pension, healthcare.

[liberalmuse]

30. Supreme Court, women's rights, gay rights, immigrant rights, fucked middle class.

Oh, we will be serfs to the 1% - because Romney meant what he said to his masters in that taped meeting.

And my side business along with most of my dreams for getting out of the corporate world will go under because the Republicans want to kill the Post Office. Then there's reproductive rights around the world, and the possibility that fuck is going to get us into some sort of altercation with Iran or Syria or god knows who/what/where. I just wish I were never a Mormon, because I know shit will get bad and I can't stand to even hear him talk. I get flashbacks of droning old men telling women all we have to look forward to in the afterlife is being 1 of hundreds of wives to men like Romney, having babies and populating Kolob for eternity.

SO, this is why President Obama WILL be re-elected. I refuse to hop on the timeline where that doesn't happen. And if that is irrational, the freepers can bite me.

[Populist_Prole]

32. That it will embolden businesses to bargain in bad faith with, or unilaterally screw their employees

Basically business will see it as open season on labor in general. They already have citizens united, and an Rmoney presidency will give them all the cover they need to put yet more downward pressure on compensation. The climate will be perfect for advancing and securing serfdom.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

34. Have you seen the movie 2012?

[LeftInTX]

35. Supreme court, wars, loss of Soc Sec/Medicare

Continuation of the GOP privatization of everything.

[PD Turk]

36. That I'll no longer be able to get my same old Fruit Of The Looms

But seriously, I fear for my child, her education, her future. I'm a pretty tough ol bird, I've already lived through 3 decades of Reagan's disaster, but I wanted better for her. Romney wins I'm afraid she'll never have that

[ladjf]

37. After eight more years of Republican reign, America may never be able to take over again.

They would seal off all possible avenues to being overthrown. In other words, a permanent
coup.

[regnaD kciN]

38. Voucher-Care...

I'm over 55, so (theoretically) don't have to worry about my own Medicare. But my wife is under 50, and almost certain to outlive me by many years. It scares me to think of her needing medical care for many years after I'm gone, and it being unaffordable?

[Rochester]

39. A foreigner will steal my job and I will die in the gutter

[2Design]

40. He is a corporate raider who bankrupts companies after sucking out all the money he can

That is exactly what he will do for the treasury - there will be nothing for anyone who is not a millionaire - he is a bully and a mean person - he will piss off everyone around the world - he will be unwilling to work with congress and run it as a dictator

worse than all prior republicans

his wife is worse than he is and is the head of the household

[Chipper Chat]

41. His Cabinet and Staff.

Secretary of State: John Sununu
Secretary of Defense: John Bolton
Department of the Interior: ABOLISHED AND NATIONAL PARKS SOLD TO HIGHEST BIDDER (oil company)
Department of Education: ABOLISHED
Secretary of Agriculture: John Kasich
Attorney General: Joe Arpaio
Secretary of Labor: Scott Walker
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Alan West
Secretary of Health and Human Serices: David Vitter
Secreatary of Commerce: Louis Gohmert
Secretary of the Treasury: Donald Trump
.
Press Secretary: Michelle Bachman

[EC]

42. first I'm scared health insurance prices will go through the roof.

Without the 80% requirement our policies are going to really go up. Then there is the Supreme Court and hoping that none will retire or die - although that's an impossible dream. Deficit will be through the roof.

[B Calm]

43. Social Security and Medicare

[ailsagirl]

44. There are too many to list

Seriously

[fujiyama]

46. The obvious ones: SC and war with Iran, repealing Obama-care (important for family members with pre

existing conditions), destruction of medi-care and SS for older family members.

Destruction the environment. Huge auctioning off of public lands to oil and mining companies.

Belligerent and hostile attitude against China and Russia.

Hostility towards women and gays

Hostility towards Muslims

Weakened banking and financial regulations

That's just a start...

[PrBelvr]

47. My Fear

Our paid for earned benefits will be decimated and taken over by the ruthless, shameless neocons
I will never get to retire

[pointsoflight]

48. There are a number of certainties.

Reduced taxes for the rich.
Obamacare gone.
Medicare slashed, social security privatized.
New justices selected on the basis of their support for repealing Roe v. Wade.
Increased likelihood of war.
Cuts to science and education.
Selling off of public lands/parks.
High likelihood that he'd be re-elected, since his economic policies may not tank the economy until his second term.

[OldDem2012]

49. Watch the Mormon ceremony video in another thread in this forum....

...and that will tell you exactly what I'm afraid of:

Video of Mormon temple using a hidden camera going viral

[Jamaal510]

50. I have more than one biggest fear.

-We'll be involved in yet another war.
-There would be more cuts to working class programs in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich, which means less money in the pockets of those who aren't rich.
-Romney would be able to pick the next SC justice.
-America's image worldwide would be forever tarnished as our debt grows with other nations, and Romney makes a jackass out of himself among foreign leaders like Bush Jr. did.
-Seeing Republicans gain the satisfaction of ruining Obama's re-election hopes in their plans of obstructing his agenda.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

51. WW III

[TomClash]

52. Let me add to this excellent list

THE END OF UNIONS AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT

NUCLEAR WAR

[spanone]

53. moot

[Populist_Prole]

54. There ya go!!! Best answer so far

I'm just "concerned", maybe uneasy just to avoid cockiness.

[libertypirate]

55. You all are looking at this wrong my biggest fear

is Romney appoints Dick Cheney Secretary of State.

[6000eliot]

56. What's with all the defeatism?

Obama has got this!

[Mothdust]

57. people with too much money will buy everything

And continue giving the taxes I pay to their war-mongering friends who sell war supplies, while letting public education be taken over by church schools.

[Victor_c3]

58. I'm probably repeating what has already been said above

I think regardless of who wins the election that the economy is going to improve. However, my fear is that if Romney wins, we'll find the stage set in another decade or so for another crisis like we just went through. The deregulation and tax reforms that Romney wants to impose would be a disastrous return to the W. Bush era.

I would hate to see Obamacare get repealed. That one piece of legislation is something that I'm really proud of as an American. The biggest thing I dislike about Obamacare is that it didn't go far enough, but it is a start and it is progress.

However, the biggest fear of mine is Romney's talk of playing hard in the foreign policy game. Hard-lining and threatening to start wars will result in you actually starting wars. I have no doubt that our military is capable of winning the combat portion of any war (our military hasn't lost a battle since the Korean war roughly 70 years ago) but the nation building part is what seems to get us every time. Just from a point of dollars, more wars scare the crap out of me.

Then you have the "human" aspect of war to contend with. When you say that you support a war, you are effectively committing yourself to murder. Everyone who supported the idea of invading Iraq in 2003 deserves to feel just as much pain and anguish over the war as I do. Perhaps I'm too soft (which is why I got out of the Army), but shooting and killing people for any reason is the worst possible feeling ever. Yeah, you do what you have to do in order to survive and get home, but killing anyone leaves you with huge feelings of guilt and remorse. The people who were fighting against me in Iraq were doing so because they thought they were doing what was best for their families and communities. I definitely didn't agree with their ideology, but I understand that feeling of commitment to one's family and home and I can identify with the "enemy" on that level. They are just people like me.

You also feel just as bad for those times that you didn't murder someone who you probably should have have. There was one incident in particular when I didn't shoot someone who I knew dead nuts was a combatant. I let him get away because I couldn't identify a weapon on him through my Bradley Fighting Vehicle's optics. I still kick myself for that one because there is no telling what that guy went on to do in other future fights.

And not to sound too much like a bleeding heart pinko commie liberal (which I am) but then there are the children and civilians who suffer the most as a result of the war.

A vote for Romney is a vote for war.

[quaker bill]

59. We will finally learn who he really is

I don't think that will be pretty at all.

[ThomThom]

60. depression/recession, starvation, poverty, homelessness nt

[louis c]

61. The final nail in the coffin of Labor Unions

[a kennedy]

63. I don't want to and can't EVEN think about it.....

[Franker65]

64. Reckless foreign policy

I'm worried he won't consider the consequences of reckless foreign policy decisions. We could be in a lot of trouble in the Middle East quite quickly if Romney manages to win.

[Mad_Dem_X]

65. That my husband (who works for the post office) will lose his job.

ETA: Also, the whole Supreme Court thing.

[ejbr]

66. That I'll find someone who voted for him

and beat their ass! That's my biggest fear.

[justiceischeap]

68. That we will be just that much closer to a theocracy

I always fear how deeply the christian taliban will become entrenched in our federal government.

[bluestate10]

70. My biggest fear is for the less fortunate and aspiring in society.

I won't be hurt personally if Romney is elected, but my soul will suffer from watching Romney's policies get implemented. I must admit that I am so upset with the Left "vote my conscience" people that I am at the point where I am perfectly ok with sitting out and letting them fight the battle against Romney alone, that is the least they deserve after the behavior some of them are showing at this critical moment in the nation's history.