Republicans...what exactly are you mourning?
I'm writing this post as an outsider in America--by outsider, I am referring to the fact that I am a foreign student that has been living here for nearly four years and has made many observations.
Something can be said about objectivity. As an outsider, I would dare to assert that I am more objective that someone who is American, has been living here their whole life, and can perhaps even trace ancestral roots further back--whether it be to slavery in America to OWNING slaves in America. But I digress.
Nonetheless, with the recent brouhaha (and for most, celebration) over Obama's win, I have seen numerous melodramatic facebook statuses, notes, and tweets from republican supporters lamenting the President's second victory. Some of the "mourning" was seen through posted photos of upside-down flags, asserting that November 6th was the day America "died" (their words, not mine), calling Obama a muslim despot, proposing that they will "move to Australia or England" (which I find humorous, since the UK has tax-funded socialized medicine, and Australia has an atheist female governing with socialized medicine and gun-bans...butttttt again I digress).
Either way, it seems pretty evident that republicans are ANGRY. But, I dared to comment on the post of a good friend and asked, "What is it you are mourning?"
"...How? What died? What's changed from the old America? Because isn't that what you are mourning?"
"Our values, our rights--everything our forefathers stood for is dying! We are killing it!'
I won't take forever to go over basic American history, but I will say this--I will make a devastatingly drastic assertion, but one that I stand by.
Republicans are mourning the death of a white-dominated America.
The reason that republicans are so in mourning, even more so than ever, is because the typical republican is any combination of the following factors: White, evangelical Christian, rich, racist, homophobic, sexist. Even further, the typical republican candidate pans to any or all combinations of those factors as well. And this election demonstrated that America is having NONE of that.
Thus, republicans aren’t just mourning, they are scared.
The fact that a campaign based on a combination of those factors did not appeal to the majority of Americans is terrifying to a white Republican majority (soon to be minority). Just look at the statistics: over 90% of blacks, over 70% of Latinos, and over 70% of Asians voted for President Obama. That isn’t a fluke—that is a sizeable portion. Yes, you can argue that many blacks voted Obama due to race, but I believe those persons are more than canceled out by whites who voted Romney just because he was white. So that is irrelevant. The point is, when you look at the major ethnic, non-white groups in America—they supported Obama almost unanimously. They helped to carry this election. And that, to the typical white, Christian republican, is terrifying.
And of course, because whites are still the majority, you can’t win an election without ‘em! So Obama also got white voters too—signifying that there are also white people who don’t co-sign the racist, separatist mess the Republican Party puts forward. Oh, the horror!
Obama also gained the majority of the woman’s vote, even if it was slight. No, republicans, the Christian ideology that “being raped is God’s will” apparently wasn’t received too warmly by the American female populace. I don’t have a statistic on the LGBTQ vote—but I can comfortably assert that Obama probably carried that group as well. Things such as endorsement of gay marriage and the repeal of a military ban on gays has a way of making the average LGBTQ person favour the democratic side.
Obama has been president for the past 4 years—and America didn’t implode. To presume that it will in another 4 years is ridiculous. So if you, a republican, are mourning the death of America, then it can’t be the death of physical America…no! It is the death of the America you prefer—the America in which your constitution was written by men that owned slaves…the America that was built upon the backs slavery, Native American destruction, and persecution (both social and physical) of minority groups for the advancement of the white populace.
The reason why you want things to go back to the way it was, is because that’s what you preferred! An America dominated by whites…you don’t want to see this changing racial and ethnic landscape in which whites are quickly becoming the minority. To you, that is not America.
And a movement towards that, by extension, signifies the loss of America.
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