Could you live under Romney?

[sibelian]

Would you stay in the US if Romney was elected?

(I am not from the US...)

[freshwest]

1. I'll be forced to if he is. If I could leave if he's elected, I would. The country would go to hell.

In fact, I believe that many of us would not survive, literally, a Romney term. The man is psychopath and so are his supporters. There would be another war started and a draft, and the population would be put under an austerity that would kill millions and he'd laugh. I'm not kidding, those are my gut feelings about these people. Look what they have been doing since 2010.

[sibelian]

2. It's an unsettling thought, isn't it?

I'm really not sure how the rest of the world would react, either. Nobody's cutting him aaaaany slack overseas at ALL. Everybody nominally politically powerful at least attemped to look polite to Dubya but... not this time.

I'm worried.

[Odious justice]

4. But look at the bright side...if Romney is elected we will simply invade all those countries not

cutting him slack. And some of the ones that cut slack. He will have a firm "anti-slack" policy and any country capable of producing slack will be destroyed.

[Odious justice]

3. This question gets asked every election cycle.

People have very dramatic answers. For better or for worse its very difficult to relocate to another country, especailly one that has employment opportunities.
But, yes, I could live under Romney. I don't want to, but I don't think it will kill me.

[sibelian]

7. Thoughtful answer, thank you. nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Romney with a Democratic Congress, yes

Romney with a Republican Fox News Tea Party Congress, HELL NO!!!

[freshwest]

18. That's the scenario I'm thinking. Dumb enough to vote Romney is dumb enough to vote all Teabagger.

[KurtNYC]

6. No taxes for all ! A dancing pony in every car elevator !

and an economy based on "pranks" -- what's not to love?

[LongTomH]

23. Taxes raised for the working poor....lowered for billionaires!!!!

Jesus wept! Literally!

[KurtNYC]

39. Under Romney the working poor will "borrow some money from (their) parents

and start a business." Use a call center in India to replace themselves at 30% of the wages they would earn. Then they off-shore all of the profits to the Caymans and pay no taxes.

Everybody wins.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. I did once,

of course he was never around.

I don't want to do it again.

[taught_me_patience]

9. It would suck real bad if congress was also Repub

but, at least, I'd get a huge tax break.

[warrior1]

10. he's not going to win

[sibelian]

12. No?

Why not?

[Odious justice]

14. I think he could win. We all have to think he could win.

There are a lot of factors that could tip his way. The State of Michigan has almost all of cities with a majority African American population under "Emergency Management". The stage is ripe for election fraud to tip in Romneys favor, or perhaps just old fassioned voter supression.

Obama won some states by small margins, and there is going to be a backlash against the incumbent. The best thing Romney has going for him is that he isn't Obama. Some voters will pick him because their lives have not improved and they're willing to give someone new a shot- we call these people "degenerate morons who probably cannot read and believe in the skygod" or "swing voters". But they are out there.

I think that thinking Obama will win can lead to laziness....on all of our parts. We have to think that Obama MUST win.

[handmade34]

11. of course I could live (if Romney were president)...

although it might be in a box under a bridge

[JoeInNy]

13. Yes of course.

[slackmaster]

15. If Romney is elected I will order a large "The Works" pizza, a Greek salad, and a bottle of Chianti

To be delivered.

[freshwest]

20. To who?

[slackmaster]

22. To myself. As for the Romneys, I think I'll send a handwritten letter to The Rosicrucians...

...asking for a copy of one of their free books to be sent to their La Jolla address. My grandfather did that in about 1938. He was still getting junk mail from them when he died in 1969.

http://www.rosicrucian.org/home.html

[freshwest]

38. They leave little tracts here and there. I think we have a couple of members onboard here, too.

[MrSlayer]

16. I would leave right now if I could.

It's not the President that's the problem, it's the Congress. Even if the President wins a second term we're still going to have this teabagger congress and nothing will continue to get done. I just don't see us getting the House back. Not with citizens united money crushing us in every race. We're going to be lucky to hold the Senate as well.

If Romney wins, is there a chance they'll release money and start doing the projects they've been holding back?

In most cases I would say yes because they'll want to take credit for bringing jobs back and getting the economy on track. But with the nutcases that are winning for them I'm not so sure. I think these guys are serious and would send us into a death spiral. You think things are bad now? This is nothing compared to what they'll do to us. I think we will literally see people starving in the streets and chaos on a grand scale. It will get ugly, real ugly.

It's not Romney that scares me, it's his sponsors.

[Starry Messenger]

17. I have to now.

Too old, too broke, no desirable skills. I guess Europe has all the 40-something Ceramics teachers with no inherited fortunes it needs. I took the test.

[Wait Wut]

19. Okay...ew.

Though I understood what the subject of your OP meant, 'live under Romney' gave me a serious case of the wanna-pukes. Then...there was the visual.

To answer your question, of course. Not well, happy or looking towards a brighter future, but I'd survive...for a minute.

[gollygee]

21. I survived under Dubya

I suppose I'd survive R-money too.

[YoungDemCA]

24. Yes, because leaving this country to the right-wingers...

...would be dishonorable.

A lot of people can't afford to leave. Leaving the country would be incredibly selfish.

[sibelian]

25. What?

your point escapes me.

[Blue_In_AK]

26. Of course.

I managed to live through Nixon, Reagan and Bush. Not that I would like it that much, but we will survive.

[Nye Bevan]

27. 1. Yes, we all could. 2. Yes, we all would.

The reality is that the Republicans are very unlikely to have 60 senators, so the Dems would be able to filibuster most of what Romney wanted. Certainly with Obama winning things would be fairer and more tolerant, but contrary to the hypetbole of some here, a Romney victory would not be the dawn of a terrifying fascist dictatorship.

[Motown_Johnny]

28. We lived through W.

I'm not going anywhere.

[slackmaster]

29. And Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushs in my case

I'm not going anywhere.

[spanone]

30. i'll never have to know.

[RagAss]

31. We're already living under thousands of Romneys.

Get a clue.

[sibelian]

33. Stop being rude to people on the Internet.

It's bad for you.

[newfie11]

32. No n/t

[demosincebirth]

34. I lived under Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan (once as Gov), Bush 1 and Bush 2. But thanks to FDR

for Social Security and propping up unions and Johnson for signing the Medicare bill, I live pretty good with my union pension. I've always worried about those less fortunate and who struggle constantly with trying to make ends meet. We should thank Mr Obama and the democrats who against extreme pressure from the right we passed the ACA and the Pres signed it into law. I also thank Supreme court Justice Roberts for doing the right thing and being the deciding vote for keeping the ACA law in place.

[CBHagman]

35. Would you move away if a friend or relative got cancer?

Of course you wouldn't.

That's my answer with the a potential Romney win. I've seen people who had absolutely no business reaching the presidency do so, and I stayed, and will stay.

That said, it would be a damnably stupid thing to do, electing Romney, and I mean to work for Obama's reelection.

So treat the disease of ignorance and wrongheadedness. Work for an Obama win, but if Romney gets in, work for progressive policies and against Romney's.

[RebelOne]

36. I wouldn't want to, but I would have to adapt.

Unfortunately, as much as I would want to, I could not afford to leave the country.

[Worried senior]

37. Don't have any choice

but if Ryan gets his way I don't know what we'll be living on. Time to save some pills.

[ballabosh]

41. I survived

8 years of Reagan and 8 years of W, I can survive Romney. I'll stay here and fight against eveything he stands for. I'm not running anywhere; this country means too much to me.