Are you scared for if Republicans gain power on November 2nd?

I can't say I'm thrilled about the possibility, but not for the reasons you might think. For all their talk about bomb-throwing in the halls of Congress, they will find that the obstructionist tactics they've used for the past two years work just as well in the other direction. Even if they control both houses, they'll find it practically impossible to pass big legislation.

The Democrats had massive, overwhelming majorities and couldn't pass legislation; bare majorities won't even come close. They may gain considerable control over budgeting, and that puts them in the hot seat. They've promised to cut $100 billion, but they've been vague on specifics.

Cutting that money is harder than people imagine. You can cut programs you oppose ideologically, but they don't turn out to be all that much. (The entire Department of Education, for example, is only $32 billion.

You could zero it out and still be less than a third of the way there. ) Big budget items come in areas that get people angry when you touch them: defense, medicare, social security. What I'm more concerned about is that they certainly already know what I've just said, and intend to spend the next two years harassing the President.It's what they did last time we had a Democratic President and a Republican Congress: they cast about for a charge on which to impeach him until they found one, and then spent 100% of their time on it.

As Mitch McConnell said, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president. " Jobs, economy, terrorism... all of it is Job #2 compared to winning next time around.So we're looking at two years of useless government, interspersed with the sort of bile that the Tea Party movement brings. I'm disappointed, for the loss of what could have happened, but more importantly for what it means to America. I thought they voted for hope.

Now, they are voting for fear, and I don't see a President ever running on hope again.It's too easy to wash over: take a news network dedicated to demonizing the President, and they'll achieve it. It will never, ever be reasonable again. Governing is less important than winning, and since you can't govern without winning, it means that nobody will ever govern.So I'm not scared of what they'll do.

They'll do very little, and while it's unpleasant to see the President harassed, he'll handle it with the same aplomb he's handled everything else. But I'm scared of the message it sends, that fear and hate is the best way to win. I'm sorry to see America devolve into cowardice.

I have my worries either way. Both major parties have been obstructionist and unwilling to compromise. Both have their flaws - Republicans seem more corrupt to me and heartless, while Democrats seem to have difficulties with basic math.

Both are 'owned' by corporations and special interest groups. And together they hold a near-monopoly on the government. Third party candidates are rarely heard of, and sometimes not even printed on the voting forms, leaving the voter to have to track down names and write them in.

And even if you do that, the odds of them winning are almost nil, and all you do is weaken the side of the Big Two that you'd have been more likely to agree with. In the end it seems like, no matter who wins, 'we the people' lose. Source: personal opinion.

Provided they actually do what they say they'll do, I'm all for it. Cutting spending and entitlements is a necessity.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.