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written by a friend who'll remain anonymous.. couldn't have worded my thoughts better than he.

Tonight might very well be the last night of the world as I know it. In 24 hours, they'll be tallying ballots and the news will eagerly show the end of one of the most significant presidential races in American history...

I can't help but feel an overwhelming sense of dread about the whole ordeal. It feels so uneasy. I'm bothered by the amount of people who have no clue what they're voting about, the vast amount of Blacks who are voting simply because a candidate looks like they do, and with a false sense that this eloquent, hope-filled man will somehow bring them to the promised land that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed about. How they believe he is for them, and how suddenly, they'll be able to see the entire struggle of the Black race come full circle.

I'm bothered that so many Christians have been so completely blind-sided into sealing their own fate... how they can campaign and post pictures of a party that hates what they believe in, and sees their belief system as nothing but hypocritical lies told to control them and make them complacent. How can they help to usher in a time where they will be eventually be prosecuted for their faith. How can they ignore the examples that have already been set in motion? It defies logic, especially given how many warnings exist in the Bible about the persecution of Christians during the end of the world.

Tomorrow, Prop 8 won't pass, and although so many are so short-sighted to simply believe it to only be about marriage, time will show that it was only the next step on the agenda's ladder. What was once simply written off as something that was done in the privacy of people's bedrooms has now become something that no one can avoid or escape. It's simply thrust upon without your choosing. Soon, having the opinion that homosexuality is wrong will simply get you labeled a bigot and a person filled with hate, regardless of what rational ideas you have to support your stance, and eventually the problems facing churches in Mass. will be held nationwide as Gays grow fed up with these places preaching hate.

After tomorrow, Obama will take office, and eventually the Democrats will shift the balance of the entire democracy of the US to one side after they manage to successfully takeover the senate and put an end to our system of checks and balances. With that, we will see changes that will certainly shift our economic system as well as social issues. The American public has become drunk on promises. Intoxicated with looking at politics at face value. We do not realize that Obama's "tax cuts" are simply more government handouts, a system that is already so broken and taken advantage of, that it costs the country millions of dollars.

After tomorrow, taxes will raise for everyone because there's simply no way 95% of America can receive tax cuts when we are trillions of dollars in debt, and Obama said during his primary debates that "raising taxes was the fair thing to do" when asked about why he intended to raise capital gain taxes.

Clearly McCain and Palin are not much better, and it's why I go to sleep tonight without anticipation of heading to the voting booth. I'm only voting on policies. I see no point in choosing the same of two evils. It's like choosing between drowning in the ocean or a lake. Different places, different water, maybe even a different experience, but still the same result. I realize that the things I care about the most do not really matter in the eyes of the collective majority. I realize that this concept of hope and change and progress is nothing of the sort, and how we'll be dealing with a new set of problems on top of the ones we already have. For now, I'm just a spectator waiting to get his kicks by saying "I told you so".

And of course, I could be 100% wrong about everything, and things really could change, and if ever I wanted to be wrong about something, this would certainly be it...

But that's not very realistic now, is it.