“Whoever wins, we lose.”

That was the tagline for 2004’s critical bomb Alien vs. Predator where two franchises battle on Earth for supremacy. I haven’t seen it, but looking at the recent election, there seems to be something to the comparison — powerful forces fighting each other for control of the planet, it’s current inhabitants irrelevant or at most an inconvenience.

It’s all a farce of course, but now that the election is over and the way forward (herp derp) is clearer, we can begin to draw some conclusions about where history is headed.

The Democrats don’t seem to realize it yet, but their party is now looking down the barrel of a very big gun. There is a very real possibility the party itself will not survive the next few years. If war erupts, if the economy collapses, if the banks seize up, your bank account emptied or inaccessible, or some other unforeseen ’black swan‘ takes place, the blame for such events will not be as evenly shared as it would have been if Romney won.

Market analyst Karl Denninger spells it out a bit more directly:

“The Democrats, being in the White House, are staring down the destruction of their party within the next four years.  They don’t realize it yet, and probably won’t until it’s too late.  But because it is nearly certain that this mess will come to a head within the next four years, and might within the next year or two, they will get tagged with the blame since they hold the White House.”

The Republican’s 2016 candidate will not look like Mitt Romney. What comes out of the next crisis will look very right wing, fascist, & uglier than you ever though possible. Austerity, not as a fiscal policy, but as a knee jerk reaction of revenge will be the party’s platform.

For now, we brace for whatever comes next.