United?...States

Obama won. Romney lost. Gary Johnson got 1% of the vote and not the 5% he needed. Apparently some people see this as a sore loss and a magnificent win. I see it as another step in the same direction... right off a cliff. With the hype still bellowing out of their ears in the form of vaporized steaming piles of bullshit taking solidity in posts of angry, bitter, and racially discriminating tinted on facebook, republicans are sincerely expressing their disappointment with the elections passing. The democrats are blindly basking in their pseudo-winning and myself and others like me? We are just laughing at the both of them while meagerly  agreeing that our nation is in shambles and the pieces are too scattered to be put back together by the duopoly that is repubs and dems who continue to draw a black and white line between one another and our entire nation.

While I feel a certain ease on tension now that I know another filthy rich fat cat lunatic republican will not be in office. I find it disheartening that most people ( at least in my deeply southern rooted society ) think our president is a muslim and is feeding the welfare bums directly with his greedy stingy "racist against the white man" hands... I also find it disheartening that most of them don't have a clue otherwise on things political other than what they are spoon-fed from their misinformed companions (again mostly from my neck of the "woods"). This election has proved to me through empirical visual and first-hand accounts that our "United States" is no such thing. 

We are a nation still divided by racism and petty ignorance that should have been addressed, through education, during the civil rights establishment, especially in the southern states. That way the kids then would have been well aware of how equal we as humans should have been. But alas, we did no such thing and the persistence of ignorance shown through and still does. It troubles me to no end how we can imagine such a great place and call it "United" when in all reality it's really not. That much is obvious now post-presidential election. There are many other issues surrounding this divide besides the racism issue. Yet this is the most predominant issue in my current region of the "United States".