I don’t think the US faces an existential threat from Obama and the Democrats. We were after all able to survive four years of Jimmy Carter. However, it will be ugly if the “Dear Leader” is elected.
I tend to agree and you’re right in saying it will be ugly and it will be for an extended period, lets hope he’s not elected.
...And believe it will be ugly if it gets oppressive and it ends up planting the seeds of civil war.
5 Supreme Court Justices are 70 or over, and one is almost there. Obama will appoint at least 2, and possibly more. Court precedents are, effectively, forever.
Obama has attempted to shut down opposition of all types. He'll go after talk radio full bore if elected - and a revamped Court will aid & abet. We won't even be able to find out the facts about what he's doing, let alone mount effective opposition.
He'll pay for his social programs by denuding our defenses - at a time when Iran is developing nukes and the Norks have about a dozen.
He'll raise taxes, at a time when the economy is tanking.
He'll try to ban guns, or make guns & ammo so expensive via regulation that he'll effectively ban them. Gun shows will be a relic of the past. All sales will be recorded, making confiscation all the easier. I'm not even sure that we'll have free and fair elections by 2012.
Yes, he DOES present an existential threat to our way of life. When Carter was President, there was some civility, some sense of limits. We also still had the Cold War to keep us united. There's none of that now, and we're much closer to a precipice now. He is downright dangerous.