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	<title>Zach Flauaus &#187; John McCain</title>
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		<title>This Country is Splitting at its Seams</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the age of 17, it&#8217;s not good when you fear for your country. It&#8217;s also not good when you fear for both the present times for your country, but also the future of your country. And to be quite &#8230; <a href="http://www.zachflauaus.com/2008/10/this-country-is-splitting-at-its-seams/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the age of 17, it&#8217;s not good when you fear for your country. It&#8217;s also not good when you fear for both the present times for your country, but also the <i>future</i> of your country. And to be quite honest, I&#8217;m scared s***less.</p>
<p>As I&#8217;m laying around the house today, I&#8217;m in and out of comprehension because being sick is making me tired. But of course, I fight it so I can stay up to date with the world around me. I flip it on MSNBC (it&#8217;s habit, folks) and after all the commentary about how the world is going to end because of the economy, we get into politics. Namely, the McCain&#8217;s latest strategy. I think it&#8217;s all about one word: &#8220;ATTACK!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>Now, I know that in the last 30 days, it&#8217;s all about the dirty tactics and getting those undecided folks to decide on their candidates, but it&#8217;s getting disturbing out there. See said videos:</p>
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&#8220;Terrorist! Kill Him!&#8221;</center></p>
<p>Another one would be where somebody shouted &#8220;treason!&#8221; at a rally in Jacksonville, Florida. See the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/obama-hatred-on-display-a_n_132572.html">Huffington Post&#8217;s page</a> (thanks for not making it able to embed. Jerks.)</p>
<p>Not to say that the Obama camp won&#8217;t be nasty, but they haven&#8217;t started yet. They&#8217;re still concerned with the economy\ <b>as we should be</b> because that topic is right here, right now. Not some connections with a terrorist forty years ago. Yes, it&#8217;s concerning, but for the love of God, people, we need to fix the present before we can start looking to the future!</p>
<p>Now then, to the real concern that I have. All this constant bashing back and forth on the news, in rallies, and even on Twitter is getting old and to be honest, scary as hell. I swear it&#8217;s like <a href="http://twitter.com/davewiner">Dave Winer</a> thinks the world will end up either nuked or on a collision course with the sun if McCain wins the election. And then GeekBrief.TV&#8217;s own <a href="http://twitter.com/nealcampbell">Neal Campbell</a> scares the hell out of me. Thankfully, he actually talks tech between politics unlike Dave which has been one tech tweet to 30,000 political tweets.</p>
<p>The constant bitterness and arguments can easily translate from the online world to the physical world, which would equate to riots and fights. Am I saying we&#8217;ll see a civil war? I think we have a good chance of discovering a real Cylon before that happens. Am I saying there will be the occasional fight on November 4th? My money is on it.</p>
<p>Combine the political terror that&#8217;s going on along with the roller coaster that is the economy and it&#8217;s truly a time to pray that this will be over with soon. The nation&#8217;s stress levels are as high as they&#8217;ve ever been and I don&#8217;t think they can take much more.</p>
<p>Now then, if you&#8217;ve read this whole thing, congrats. I&#8217;m going to take some more meds.</p>
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