Why this is the most important election of our lifetime
Cliche much?
The economy is rebounding well. Obama has made many policy changes that will benefit the country for decades to come, yet he receives no credit for them whatsoever. The nation itself has shifted to where even a GOP presidency would govern more to the left than Bush ever did. But if that happens, a problem will arise that shifts perceptions for an entire generation.
2012 has been a very good economic year; it has been the first year of strong recovery and 2013-2016 will be even better. Very few people have yet to see this, and if Romney is elected, he will be given the praise for it. He could literally do nothing and would end up reaping all the benefits of what Obama and a shift towards liberal ideals has done for the country. This then would inform elections for many cycles to come. Romney would win reelection quite easily and Justice Ginsburg will have retired and be replaced with a neocon that will fully shift the SCOTUS into far right-wing territory unlike we've seen in a century. If Romney is elected, the country will be duped into giving him and the GOP all the credit, and this will allow them the power to entrench the country into their aristocratic corruption even more than before
If, however, Obama is reelected, by the time 2016 rolls around, everybody will know that it was Obama and the Democrats who brought the economy back from the dead, and not only from the dead but revitalized it into a juggernaut. The Democratic health care, education, manufacturing, tax, and even Federal Reserve changes under the Obama Administration will create this juggernaut anew. When the nation sees this and feels it in their own lives by 2016, it will give liberalism and the Democrats a fighting chance to keep the neocon snake-oil aristocrats from taking credit and taking over.
This election really is about two directions for the country. We can either elect Romney and let him ride on the back of Obama and take credit for the recovery that is already underway and will keep his deceptive neocon ideals in power for decades to come, or we can reelect the man who turned the Financial Crises of 08 and the Great Recession into great prosperity for a new generation. That prosperity may not be apparent right now, but the logistics show that the economic path the nation is on is potentially one of the greatest in its history
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