The election results from last night can single nothing but a rousing
endorsement of Obama's policies and a democrat controlled Senate that hasn't
passed a budget in 4 years. I'm not being sarcastic in this
statement. In 2008, I felt that the nation elected Obama because they
didn't know any better. While I want to blame the media, that doesn't
excuse, what I feel is a lack of responsibility of the people in understanding
what Obama has done over the last 4 years and what he plans on doing over the
next 4. The fact that Obama was elected tells me that we have truly and
knowingly crossed the tipping point whereby one segment of the population votes
themselves a portion of wealth from another segment of the population.
This type of government has come around in the past through force and
revolution, always to disastrous results. America however, has shown its
true sophistication by ushering in the same type of revolution without firing a
single shot. I always wanted to vacation in Venezuela or Cuba, but now
those two countries are visiting me.
This elections is not without lessons learned. I have now come to
realize that I live in a conservative bubble with very few liberal
influences. In my bubble, liberals are all the folks in the media that
sacrifice truth in reporting for party allegiance. Surely the people see
through such things. But I was wrong. Outside of my bubble, the
people not only believed the media, they wanted to believe it.
I have also learned that the source of information for me only perpetuates
the limitations of my bubble. While I can look to foxnews, the
drugereport, Limbaugh, and Hannity to report stories I will never hear in the
mainstream media, the opinions they offer only reinforce my bubble. The evidence of this is in my results
prediction I offered on Monday. I couldn’t
be any more wrong. But not only am I
wrong, but all of those pundits that criticized the polls and offered
predictions as lofty as mine were wrong.
The polls ended up being right.
What I am taking away from this experience is going to be a process of
change in my life. While none of my
guiding principles is changing, where I choose to expend energy will. I am not going to engage in political
debates. I am not going to use facebook
as a sounding board for my politics and criticisms of Obama. I’m not going to use my blog as a rant
against the left. What I am going to do
is try to be purposeful in filling this void and finding other areas to target
this energy. I would like to offer one
final political statement. What kind of
results do Republicans expect when their candidates campaign headquarters is
located in the most liberal city in one of the most liberal states for which
the candidate was once Governor. My deep sorrow is that we once again did not
have a true contrast between conservative and liberal to vote on.
3 comments:
This will be my only post-election comment. Republicans need to stop fighting amongst themselves and find a way to find a way to move forward finding common ground in the GOP.
It is beyond party. I don't want to support a party that simply does what it takes to gain power if by gaining power, we simply take a different road to tyranny. That is part of my retirement. The only thing the republicans are going to do is figure out ways to be more like democrats just to get power. The truth is a majority of voting americans want this type of gov, so either the opposition party unifies behind being a sharp contrast to the democrats, or they water themselves down into being diet democrats. I already know which direction they are going to go.
The GOP primary surfaced some extreme candidates. People may not like it but America is right of center politically and averse to the likes of Akin in Missouri and Mourdock in Indiana.
IMO, the GOP should focus purely on fiscal conservatism and stay away from contraception, rape and other "social" issues that alienate so many fiscally minded people.
Yet, as you indicate, the GOP has been no better that the Dems in this area. The Bush years were filled with Republicans who cut taxes but increased spending. Hard to see that changing now thanks to primary voters who made losers like Akin and Mourdock GOP senatorial candidates.
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