My angst over the re-election of Barrack Obama was compounded by some on the Conservative side blaming Mitt Romney for the loss. Some on our side tried to make the point that Mitt Romney didn't embrace the Tea Party enough and pandered to the Republican establishment too much, and that's why Barrack Obama still holds the Oval Office. But Mitt Romney is the embodiment of the American value of achievement through a strong work ethic. He articulated, fairly well in my opinion, the promise of America enshrined in our founding documents. No, the fault is not in our candidate, but in our culture.
A culture where over 50% of the people don't understand how and where prosperity is created in this country. A culture where over 50% of the people don't understand that it's been the private sector in the U.S., working in an environment dominated by freedom not government involvement, that has been able to produce wealth and advancement that has progressed the human condition more than any nation in history. A culture where over 50% of the people think that government exists, not to protect our God-given rights, but to create new rights for everything from health care to housing. A culture where over 50% of the people believe that they do not possess because others do, and they have no problem empowering government to confiscate wealth from those who have earned it and redistribute it to those who didn't. Yes, our problems are bigger than whether Mitt Romney kept his distance from the Tea Party or didn't appear on some Conservative talk show.
As a nation, we elected as our President a teleprompter over a real flesh and blood substantive man. I guarantee you that Mitt Romney's life experience and value system is more aligned with the vast majority of Americans than is the life experience and value system of Barrack Obama. And yet, over 50% of the voters in this country elected a man President who has a proven track record of implementing policy that is destructive to their own value system. This fact means that a majority of the people in this country either have a death wish, or they have been dis-informed by the very sources whose Constitutional duty it is to disseminate the truth to the people. Ignorance in this country is not by accident, it has been a deliberate political strategy by those on the left to gain and to hold power over those they have inculcated with it.
The election on this past Tuesday is proof positive that the left's decades long strategy has paid off. I think it was Ben Franklin who said, "Those who would trade their liberty for security, deserve neither liberty nor security." Over 50% of the people in this country made the conscience decision on this past Tuesday to trade their liberty for the government promise of security. Which as we all should know isn't worth the paper upon which it is written, just ask Ambassador Stevens and the three other Americans who were brutally murdered by terrorists as our newly re-elected President and members of his administration sat and watched, and did nothing. Good luck extracting their empty promises of health care and jobs from the wreckage of their rhetoric.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know about you, but I am not in a lying-down mode. I am in a fighting mode. And I believe the media has to go. They are shaping this country. My only thought was to punish them where it hurts...in the pursestrings. With no money, to "talking heads" we can get rid of them.
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Just reading your comments some more. We are not ready for a good man such as Mitt Romney. Our ears cannot hear what he says. They do not appreciate good words. Our culture has ruined a whole generation and they cannot tell good from evil.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments and for reading my blog. I think the media is destroying themselves. Recent polls have indicated that people trust them almost less than they trust Congress.
DeleteWell written and supported by me. It's unfortunate that so many would like to just sit home and collect from the government. I on the other hand have been able to promote myself to the 10% by creating and building a business with my husband. It was done by working 60 hour weeks for years and only taking enough of a paycheck to pay our necessities house payment, utilities and food for our family. We went without cable tv and other luxuries until we had our business up and running successfully. While we were starting out we would have qualified for many of the low income advantages but since we made the choice to quit our jobs and start a business it was our responsibility to pay are own way. Today we are successful and have all the luxuries we sacrificed years earlier and now our current administration wants to punish us for being successful. Even when we were low income we still paid taxes. We have never gotten a return that was more than the taxes that we paid in and have never not expected to pay our fair share. Anyone can be successful with hard work, sacrifices and dedication. It is all about know the difference between needs and wants and having the integrity to live without the wants until you can pay for them.
ReplyDeleteTina, Thanks for your comment and for reading my blog. You and your husband must have been horrified when the President said, "You didn't build that." You and your husband and those like you should be held up as an example of what can be acheived in this country with hard work. Thanks again.
DeleteI had a thought recently that I might attempt to tie into your statement that over 50% of voters are intentionally dis-informed. It was a recollection of a great writer who said that you could imprison a man's body in a dungeon, but you can't imprison his soul as long as he can still wish he could see the light of day. But if the man resigned that there no longer was such a thing as the light of day, then his soul too is imprisoned. Not an exact quote, but it's analagous to what has become of the over 50% in terms of believing in liberty. Those who want Obama don't believe there is such a thing as liberty in the sense that our founders saw it once they were freed from tyranny. Though they were once in the cell, they longed for the light of day.
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DeleteThanks, John. Your comment made me remember another great quote from a philospher who I don't remember. He said, "Hope is the worst evil because it prolongs the torment of men." So true of the election results.
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ReplyDeleteNot a whole lot of "Free Thinking" contained within your comment.
DeleteDamon, I think it is your tendency to demonize the left that was largely responsible for your candidate's loss. Why can't you accept that liberals are just as likely to be hard-working, taxpaying, patriotic, god-fearing citizens as your friends on the right? Romney falsely describes almost half of the country as freeloaders (never mind that some of the hardest working people you will ever meet don't earn enough to have to pay federal income taxes) and he is surprised that more people didn't vote for him? Its dense. I hear lots of republicans slamming Jindal and Christie since the election as RINOs, but you ought to listen to Jindal when he says Romney was wrong about Obama supporters. We work, and we worked for his victory....so which side is really lazy and feeling entitled again?
ReplyDeleteBuffalo, When I talk about Democrats I am referring to the ones in power, not the hard-working Americans who have been the victims of the leaders of their party. I don't buy the fact that everyone of the 47% of Americans who don't pay Federal income tax are too poor to afford it. In ancient Israel every citizen, rich or poor, paid half a shekel, that way everyone had skin in the game. Do you think it is fair that fewer and fewer people are paying a bigger and bigger share of the total tax burden? The top 10% of wage earners pay 70% of the Federal tax bill and they earn 38% of the income, is that fair? To set the record straight, I haven't said anything about Jindel or Christie, so don't put words in my mouth. As for working hard for the Obama campaign, how can you be proud of the most negative and sleezy campaign ever in politics, according to several university studies.
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