any other non-us-americans dreading the election?

[ed miliband]

no, not romney winning, but hordes of people you like and respect going mad about supporting obama?

the next few months are gonna be painful for me.

[Raúl Duke]

I feel the same and I live in America.

Hello, even back in 2008 I didn't give much shits about the election and when I went abroad the next year the Europeans seemed more excited about Obama than I was.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

My uncle is as liberal democrat as they come. I have some other acquaintances on Facebook who are socialists, but end up getting obsessed over hating republicans, and end up ignoring socialism in favor of democrats. "Since the revolution isn't coming soon, I'll vote for the lesser of two evils" crap. All-knowing liberals are beginning to annoy me more than conservatives.

[officer nugz]

the hilarious thing is that all of the hype that was present in 2008 is gone in the US itself. do people still care about obama abroad?

[Positivist]

I am in the US and I absolutely cannot stand the hype over the elections. It is literally people calling obama a socialist vs people calling Romney a plutocrat. And there's all this bullshit about "this election ks going to determine the course of this country." Its embarrassing really.

[Blackburn]

no, not romney winning, but hordes of people you like and respect going mad about supporting obama?

the next few months are gonna be painful for me.

I don't know what circle you move in, but I see very little support for Obama or even vaguely leftist ideals. I see a lot of people who forget the Bush year or who were too young to be politically aware then. I see a lot of mainly young people say how terrible Obama is (Which is quite frankly ludicrous).

I see a lot of tea baggers, fascists, and right wing lunies (aka Libertarians), use that ignorance of the young to promote the Republican (Romney agenda).

Yes, I'm always worried when Americans vote.

Here is the thing. Americans live in a Capitalist War Mongering country, and both parties further that agenda, but to suggest they are the same, then to do stuff that let's the worst one in, is down right crazy! It also shows a lack of perspective that comes from experience and age.

The American communist revolution is hardly around the next corner.

Good Luck trying to live under a Republican regime of endless war, and further economic warfare on the lower classes.

[ed miliband]

I don't know what circle you move in, but I see very little support for Obama or even vaguely leftist ideals. I see a lot of people who forget the Bush year or who were too young to be politically aware then. I see a lot of mainly young people say how terrible Obama is (Which is quite frankly ludicrous).

I see a lot of tea baggers, fascists, and right wing lunies (aka Libertarians), use that ignorance of the young to promote the Republican (Romney agenda).

Yes, I'm always worried when Americans vote.

Here is the thing. Americans live in a Capitalist War Mongering country, and both parties further that agenda, but to suggest they are the same, then to do stuff that let's the worst one in, is down right crazy! It also shows a lack of perspective that comes from experience and age.

The American communist revolution is hardly around the next corner.

Good Luck trying to live under a Republican regime of endless war, and further economic warfare on the lower classes.


:laugh::laugh: u mad bro

[Grenzer]

I don't know what circle you move in, but I see very little support for Obama or even vaguely leftist ideals.

I move among the revolutionary left(or so they would say).

[Jimmie Higgins]

no, not romney winning, but hordes of people you like and respect going mad about supporting obama?

the next few months are gonna be painful for me.

Where I am there is very little excitment for Obama - the election has only manifested itself in that liberals scare-monger about Romney and how "scary" he is.

I seriously see more Obama 2008 stickers on cars than Obama 2012 stickers. In 2008, when you said you weren't voting for Obama, it was like telling people that you were thinking of lighting your hair on fire to see what happens - now people just say, "Ok, yeah you're right - but it's not really Obama's fault and Romney is sooooo scary!"

I was reading a story on the Huffington Post about how Obama will probably try and "reform" medicare and social security and the comments were all saying "New Democrats are just Republicans who are 5 years behind" and all sorts of things like that. Liberals are demoralized and frustrated and confused (more than normal)!

[Igor]

the hilarious thing is that all of the hype that was present in 2008 is gone in the US itself. do people still care about obama abroad?

not really no, but as long as he's not GOP he's supported by pretty much everyone in europe. even right-wing parties in europe seem to mainly sympathize with dems and i don't know a single person irl who would vote republicans in the USA. people are pretty disillusioned with obama and have been for years, but he's the dem candidate and that's going to make him liked in europe and pretty much most countries outside usa because republicans aren't exactly internationally popular bunch

[cynicles]

No, no one is particularly excited about Obama, I think there was the night of the election in 2008 when some people got drunk at a pub and that was it. People on the left(centre-left onwards) have mostly been focusing on sharpening their hatred of Harper, which is surprisingly easy and requires little outisde input.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Good Luck trying to live under a Republican regime of endless war, and further economic warfare on the lower classes.

Don't worry, the past four years have made us pretty experienced in that.

[Ostrinski]

Wasn't aware that anyone really gave a rat's ass about American politics outside of the US. Here in the US no one I know besides myself pays attention at all to international politics and you rarely see anything mentioned on the news.

God.. this must mean there's nowhere in the world to escape American election season hype. Trapped in a buble.

[Ocean Seal]

Time for a long ass facebook post about how both parties are the same. They troll me with their Obama 2012 shit, I troll them with my long ass posts. I will repost to revleft.

[sixdollarchampagne]

Good Luck trying to live under a Republican regime of endless war, and further economic warfare on the lower classes.

The Republicans are not the only party of endless war in the US. It was the liberal Democratic plutocrat Kennedy who sent the first US "advisers" to Vietnam, and his successor, the welfare-state liberal Johnson, who escalated that war.

The current Democratic incumbent, not so very long ago, signed a treaty with the Afghan regime that will leave GI's in Afghanistan for *years* after the date by which, we were told, US troops were to be withdrawn.

Oh, and it was the populist Democrat Harry Truman, who gave the phreaking order to drop the atom bomb on the two civilian centers, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Liberal Democrats in the US Congress have, literally for decades, backed massive "defense" budgets and innumerable US interventions abroad.

And, as far as the "lower classes" in the US are concerned, the poverty rate, of those living on a shoestring, with unimaginably meager resources, has risen for four consecutive years, under this Democratic administration. Obama's poverty figures are worse than those of G.W. Bush, the liberals' nemesis.

It is terribly misleading to imply that the Democrats are antiwar, non-interventionist, or very interested in appropriating the monies needed to end poverty in the US. The opposite is the case, I can assure you.

[The Douche]

Where I am there is very little excitment for Obama - the election has only manifested itself in that liberals scare-monger about Romney and how "scary" he is.

I seriously see more Obama 2008 stickers on cars than Obama 2012 stickers. In 2008, when you said you weren't voting for Obama, it was like telling people that you were thinking of lighting your hair on fire to see what happens - now people just say, "Ok, yeah you're right - but it's not really Obama's fault and Romney is sooooo scary!"

I was reading a story on the Huffington Post about how Obama will probably try and "reform" medicare and social security and the comments were all saying "New Democrats are just Republicans who are 5 years behind" and all sorts of things like that. Liberals are demoralized and frustrated and confused (more than normal)!

This is relatively accurate in my area as well. By 2010/2011 people who had been actively working with the Obama campaign were asking me about socialist parties/movements. Though they are now mostly interested in begrudgingly voting "against Romney".

[Will Scarlet]

not really no, but as long as he's not GOP he's supported by pretty much everyone in europe. even right-wing parties in europe seem to mainly sympathize with dems and i don't know a single person irl who would vote republicans in the USA. people are pretty disillusioned with obama and have been for years, but he's the dem candidate and that's going to make him liked in europe and pretty much most countries outside usa because republicans aren't exactly internationally popular bunch
I dunno about elsewhere in Europe but the tories definitely prefer Republicans. Cameron supported McCain in 2008. :lol: I don't really know why, except I suppose they're playing the same two party game here and they're in that mentality. And they probably wish they could be even more right wing.

[Igor]

I dunno about elsewhere in Europe but the tories definitely prefer Republicans. Cameron supported McCain in 2008. :lol: I don't really know why, except I suppose they're playing the same two party game here and they're in that mentality. And they probably wish they could be even more right wing.

yeah tories are kinda different deal, they're really unlike most of european right. and even still, boris has publicly endorsed obama campaign and he's one of the most visible tories out there.