America Has a Creepy People Problem

First, before I go into my opinions, let's start with the facts.

In 2012, President Barack Obama won re-election by 62,611,250 votes. Mitt Romney lost with 59,134,475 votes. That means President (re-elect) Obama won by a margin of under 3.5 million votes. That also means that while 1 out of 5 of America's 300 million citizens voted for Obama, nearly 1 out of 5 also voted for Romney. Can we agree on those facts?

Let's ask ourselves, then, what nearly 1 out of 5 people voted for when they tried to put Romney in the White House, shall we?

• Mitt Romney said, during the campaign, that single mothers are one of the causes of gun violence. 
• He also, when he didn't think any cameras were rolling, essentially called 47% of Americans a bunch of useless eaters.
• "Corporations are people, my friend..." - Guess who said that? Yup, Mitt Romney.
• "I like being able to fire people who provide services to me." - Another infamous remark by Romney.
• "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there." - Mitt Romney.
• "He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people." - Mitt Romney.

1 out of every 5 people you run across, voted for the man who said these things during his campaign for President. It's not that they didn't hear about it. The Mainstream Media did splash these gaffes and scandals all over the prime time news. The media did their job for once. The problem is that many Americans - at least 59 million of them, nearly 20 percent of our population - simply did not care. There was no outrage.

There was, however, outrage at every perceived misstep by Obama. The September 11, 2012 attacks on American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, aroused much more ire at Obama than anything Romney did, to the point of Republican nutjobs issuing calls for his impeachment. The "Obama phones" meme, despite it being based on a pack of Right-wing lies, is widely popular now, much moreso than the "47%" meme. 

Despite the horrendously insensitive and condescending gaffes that Mitt Romney made, in which he dismissed almost half of the country as useless, he came within 3.5 million votes of winning the Presidency. This suggests that despite Mitt Romney's legion of major blunders and his own wife saying that Mitt's sanity is questionable, President Obama was but one GENUINE misstep away from losing this race. One. He could have lost re-election by bungling the Benghazi situation, he could have lost if the "Obama phones" meme had been true... he could have lost by just the PETTIEST of slip-ups.

Of course, if you look at who voted for Mitt Romney, an obvious candidate for explaining the fact that the voters were much more easily outraged at Obama than Romney... is racism. 

Be honest with yourself. If you knew someone who could hear out what Mitt Romney said about single mothers or 47% of the population and not be outraged, if your neighbor had nothing to say about his disdain toward funding for firefighters and police or his love of firing people, would that person not creep you out? Of course they would. It would most certainly be scary if their motivation for supporting Romney was racism.

But we like to live in denial, because denial helps prevent us from being rabblerousers. We don't like to point out large numbers of people as being, of all things, creepy. If nearly 20% of Americans accept this madness then it must be the norm... right? And we most certainly must be gracious to the nearly 50% of voters who went for Romney, right?

WRONG!!! Creepy is creepy. And voting for a person that you WATCHED as he stepped up and blamed single mothers for gun shooting rampages, is CREEPY. There are one of two things that motivate one's acceptance for such madmen: insanity, or in this case, racism. 

There is something broken, mentally speaking, inside these people. And odds are that you live next to them. Sure, they'll watch your dog while you're out, or keep an eye out for intruders. They may even go to your church. But the next time a rabid extremist dog like Mitt Romney runs for President, they'll have his back. And once again you'll be looking at the prospects of these creeps electing an America that pisses on the poor and working class, and blames single mothers for any one or more of the country's ills of the day. Or perhaps if a white Democratic candidate runs for President, things will be less rabid. In that case the problem really IS racism. But of course we can't call that a mental disease when it afflicts fully 20% of the population, now can we? That is, of course, sarcasm.