A Republican representative from Georgia, Paul Broun, spewed some serious shit about Obama yesterday according to this Associated Press article.

(Please note the hilarious irony in that he is both a Republican – you know, the ones who lost the election – and a citizen of Georgia, which is amongst the most racist states in the country.)

In a nutshell, he claims that Obama is going to create a national citizen police force, take away our right to bear arms, and then he even goes so far as to compare Obama’s win in the presidential race to Hitler’s win in Germany prior to World War II. The irony! Even ignoring the fact that this guy is a Republican (and therefore automatically an idiot), this kind of shit just blows my mind.

I could write a huge post about how stupid this asshat is but I’m just going to leave it at this: capitalism fucked this country over in a big way. The “old ways” have come to an end with this most recent election and it’s time for people to either get over it or move to Canada. We were clearly heading down the wrong path. Our economy is in shambles, our military is struggling at best, our healthcare and public education systems are some of the worst in the civilized world, and the list just keeps going.

I almost wish that things like this didn’t make it into the news. It scares me knowing that lunatics like this guy are actually part of our government.

Oh, and as a sidenote, Barack Obama won 69% of the electoral vote in this election. He also won the popular vote by a decisive 7% vote, a total gap of 8,256,013 votes. The people spoke loud and clear.