Edited 11/11/2012 for clarity and because I was really pissed off when I wrote this and it's just not very coherent.
“Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.”
~ Someone in the Czech Republic via a newspaper
I’m disappointed.
Yesterday the morning started out with such hope. By the time I went to bed last night. Crash and burn.
Ohio results weren’t in yet, but I could tell it was going to go for Obama. Disgusted with half my fellow buckeyes, I went to bed.
Usually a night of rest makes things seem less grim, less hopeless in the morning.
Not so today.
It’s worse.
What I can’t wrap my head around? How could white Americans vote for more debt? Why do I differentiate between white and black? Because I get racial pride. I have black friends. Even though Obama doesn’t have anything close to their background, their “black American” experience, he’s still “one of them.” I think it’s retarded to vote for or against someone based on race. Retarded when thought about logically. But emotion, and racial pride, can blunt the senses. And there is a simmering hostility in the black community.
The flavor of perceived oppression is often as bitter as the actual pill.
So I can understand the racial pride vote. Or understand it as well as a white girl in the suburbs can
So how could white, Latino, whatever vote for a man who has more debt than all other presidents combined? Are they not paying attention? And for the record, every single person I know who is on welfare, or gets SSRI, or some other gov. handout, voted BO. Without exception.
The right to vote at the federal level for president isn’t a Constitutional right. People getting checks from the government for doing nothing more than existing, shouldn’t get to vote imo. That aside….
One of the reasons this election was so important is….Obamacare. It is the cannon that will blast us over the fiscal cliff into oblivion and irrelevance. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
Can you say 50% income tax?
Don’t worry, you’ll have lots of practice. It will be part of the common American experience in the not too distant future.
It is highly ironic that in my suburb, people voted for BO, and voted down the much needed school levy. Meaning, they don’t want to pay more taxes. hahahaha. They elected the king of taxes!!
Don't get me wrong. Our current medical system is broken. The cost of care is unrealistic. There are things in Obamacare I support, but at the same time don't believe my family should be forced to pay for healthcare for grown-ass adults. It's a quandry.
History shows, as a super-power declines, it is challenged by other nations. Usually war. That’s what happens when the biggest kid on the block isn’t as strong anymore. Others, who secretly resented their power all along, or simply want the resources that kid has, gang up to bring them down. When that happens….if there is anything left of what once was America…I say we split it. Liberals and government check collecting Dems on one side, the rest on the other.
The split is already here, but for the geography anyway.
So we split officially. Obama-bots have their own place, one plagued with debt, taxes, and gov. dependency…and the rest of us? Free to build the life we choose, live or die by our own ability and ambition, unlimited by gov. tax burdens.
Our motto?
Live free or die.
Until then, I am an American.
But I have to wonder, will my grand-children be?
Lula,
There is a reason we’re called the “Rome of the West" by some historians.
Daiwa,
I cut off an internet friend yesterday. She used to blog here. She just spouted total ignorance, and ranted about how ignorant other people appear.
We disagree on some fundamental levels. I could overlook that if she were a coherent person. But it's like talking to a 4 year old that believes, BELIEVES!! Santa is real and he's "cool."
So frustrating.
And I'm all about cutting that sort of frustration out of my life.
I find it HIGHLY ironic that my Democrat uneducated acquaintances feel it is the more educated party. And with a few of those cases, I know they believe the association somehow makes them appear smarter. As if by skipping college they can still get the same intellectual respect by signing onto the platform.
Instead of say, becoming a master of their field. Researching topics and finding their very own points of view, their own expertise.
That's too much work.
And doesn't back up what they want to believe.
Most of my Dem friends have no children (or 1), are college educated, and frankly clueless about what I term, big-picture America. All they care about is their little slice of it, and pet issues like abortion, animal rights, etc. Not our standing in the world. Not even really our national defense.
Most of them are young, and since I was where they are once, I can accept it as part of the growing process. Some people get stunted in it though.
The older Dems in my life, tend to be associated with academia.
Whew.
Thought I broke JU! lol
It's a worldview issue.
Many people are not concerned with their own debt, never mind the nation's debt.
The reason the democratic party is more educated is because the people who teach at colleges are liberals, who teach the young'uns theory. Liberalism looks great in theory, because it doesn't have any real-world consequences in theory - all those consequences we're seeing now are obviously the result of something else, not the liberalization of the nation, they would tell you.
We are slowly giving people more freedom to make more bad choices, and people are making them. I've made them myself.
On a government level, the way to get elected is to offer hand-outs, so that's what we get.
I want to run for President in an honest way. Balance the budget now. Pay off loans now. Get this country on the right road. If we didn't have to pay all that interest, we could pay for all the handouts we give today! But as it stands, we can't!
And if we then reduced those handouts, we could lower taxes on everyone, or spend money on things we need like the military.
But that's not going to happen.
Tova - website breaker. Netrunner.
Yup..we are totally divided and the election sharpened the edges.
Obama came away from the stage saying he's learned a thing or two and he'll work with Congress.
I don't believe him for a New York minute.
I just hope that the House Republicans hold on and don't cave in to seem bipartisan.
The problem with giving people enough rope to hang themselves...they aren't just hanging themselves...they're dragging down an entire nation.
I do not think people should be punished for the rest of their lives for bad choices, like having a child at 16.
However, once the mistake is made, help should be based on the person's ability to help themselves.
No one should get paid to sit home on their ass. That person is taking food off my family's table, limiting the things we can do with our own earnings.
It is these moochers that need to be cut off. And I personally KNOW PLENTY OF THEM.
Sit around, smoke cigarettes, do NOTHING, and get paid. Sure their lives aren't awesome, but I'd really like to use the money we earn to go on vacation, buy a bigger house, WHATEVER..not support that crap.
Oh, yeah, Santa Claus breads and circuses is what is keeping them on the Democrat rolls.
Or as your friend put it so well....they just want to sit on the couch and watch dancing with the stars.
Agreed.
But I'm not sure I would agree with you on every bad choice.
The Voice is way cooler.
AMEN! I feel sorry for my children and grand children.
Amen again.
Benghazi is not an impeachable offense. It is definitely a horrible decision. And the lying is as bad as it gets (quality wise). But foreign policy is the purview of the president. He can sacrifice a million men, and the only recourse is to vote him out of office.
If the american electorate could be impeached, it should be.
There is a way out. The Agnew way. Biden is easily impeachable. Him first, Obama next.
Now we are all going to be guessing! It was not wise fawn was it?
Here is even more irony. Education is hard. It is work to get a good one. The election just proved that most people do not want to work to get things. So in 4 years, those uneducated democrats are going to be even more uneducated.
No, it was Forever.
Could you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean.
The whole point of things being choices is that we make them. We don't make them because we think they're the wrong choice. So I would suspect that given all the things I've chosen, and you've chosen, we wouldn't see eye-to-eye on all of them.
Talk about timely.
I played golf with my usual foursome this morning. Two doctors and a retired teacher, liberal Democrats all. Been playing with them for years and there's always been lighthearted political ribbing off & on, but rarely any substantive discussion as we're just there to enjoy a round of golf. We're good friends and enjoy playing together but the friendship is largely limited to our golf outings.
This being the first post-election round, the inevitable came up. The conversation got around somehow to birth control, believe it or not, and I was stunned to learn that 2 of them believe, with absolute conviction, that Republicans, had Romney won, planned to ban birth control. Not just to ban use of taxpayer dollars to pay for it, but ban it altogether. That's how good the left's propaganda machine has been at disinformation and demonizing the opposition. Two highly educated men in their 60's completely believe it, despite it being ludicrous on its face. I kept quizzing them if they really believed it - they were adamant that it was absolutely true. I asked for any specifics, a reference, a quote, a position paper or party platform language they could point me to to support that belief, but of course they couldn't - they just knew, near as I can tell entirely on the basis of Republicans being 'pro-life'. Never mind that even the poor among us have cell phones, flat screen TV's, computers, cigarettes, liquor and cars, asking any female to pay for her own birth control is beyond the pale. Asking Georgetown law students to fork over a co-payment for their own birth control is beyond the pale.
They were also absolutely convinced that had Romney won, Republicans would have shut down Planned Parenthood, not just withheld tax dollars from it. We have to have free birth control to keep 13 year old Philly ghetto girls from getting pregnant. Failing that, we have to have taxpayer funded abortions to keep them from adding to the welfare rolls. This apparently is their idea of compassion.
I was just dumbfounded by the whole conversation. All I could say was OMG.
Actually, the mainstream media should be impeached. Had it not been for FOX who would know? Same goes for Fast and Furious!
My husband was working on one of our properties and had 3 appointments for an estimate on installing window blinds. Now, most anyone he meets, he always bends their ear about politics in one way or another. He said that none of them knew anything at all about Benghazi.
Yup, I read that Planned Parenthood all over the nation had its folks working, with flyers, calling, actually pounding the pavement in their neighborhoods, going door to door, spreading the fear of Romney and the big bad Republicans banning birth control.
They did it for self-preservation...that's alot of tax payer moola coming in.
Turns out Planned Parenthood spent $15 million getting Obama re-elected.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/planned-parenthood-spent-15-million-on-election?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ce2b56fba9-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlin
No, you miss the entire point. The problem is not suffering any consequences of making bad choices. Once you eliminate the consequences, then you eliminate the lesson. SO you are condemned to keep making them because there is no down side. In other words, you are institutionalizing stupidity.
And that is what happened this week.
I try not to get angry at Obama voters. For one thing, I have one or 2 in my family (gasp), and it plays into Obama's plans for me to become polarized and get angry. Obama would like nothing more than to put lots of daylight between us and them.
Atlas Shrugged. I am hearing a lot of that. We will be vilified for not playing the game, but I am tired of trying to educate the uneducable.
Nope. Just let them have their way. In 1980, it was enough for America to see the descent coming. In 2012, they have to see it arrive.
Yeah, that's where I'm at too. Sometimes people need a problem to just bite them on the backside before they understand it.
Gah. That is pretty much what Forever spouted. Talking about taking women's rights away....blah blah blah.
Really?
First of all I don't consider making it legal to kill your baby in utero a "right." Rights are bestowed upon us by God and nature. If abortion was a "right" then women would be able to make it happen without paying someone else to do it.
Abortion "rights" is politically correct way of saying, women have the right to "Sex without natural consequences."
It doesn't "forward" the rights of women. It murders them. And then re-enforces the bad choices with bail outs.
Exactly. Bail outs (most of the time) just enable bad behavior to continue. Which is why they should be the exception, not the rule.
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