Wolf-Crying

It's the end of the world and the republic, just like every other time it's been the end of the world and the republic when a controversial president is elected, from Jefferson all the way down to Obama.

I’ve but a small prediction.  Here it is:
The country, now divided, as before,
Will claim to be divided at its core,
Unprecedented, all because of his
Election (but it’s false).  And any fall
In favor, or the markets, or the way
That any rare occurrence makes a play
Within our coming history will all
Be placed upon his shoulders (wrong again).
How quickly we forget that we have done
This many times before, and we have won,
And lost, and still survived so many men,
And after all predictions of our doom
Have faded, we have yet a little room
To all forget, and crazily assume
The next election’s nailed us in a tomb.