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When I saw them call Nelson the winner in the Florida race for Senate I got a feeling of dread. When New Hampshire was called, it got worse and when Pennsylvania and Wisconsin went to the dark side, it was like a cold hand had grabbed my heart and squeezed hard. I turned off the television and felt like the character from the short story by Edward Everett Hale that exclaimed, "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!"

I tried to sleep but after hours of tossing and turning, I got up and turned Fox News back on to see re-runs that Romney has given his concession speech. It was all over—

Now, I got back to another great American writer, Robert A. Heinlein, to express the ever so dark thoughts I have no words for: “The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’

‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”

The country of my birth has gone away and I fear, never to return again under the coming government sponsored Euro-Socialism with an even larger national debt. I shall mourn the passing of my heritage and try to regain some faith in the Constitution and the future of United States of America. Last night's results tell me it will be a near hopeless quest and a long four years watching the final ending come closer and closer.

The inmates are running the asylum and no relief is in sight—