Posted on 11/15/2012 2:41:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Barely had the counting ceased in last weeks presidential election when the news took a somber turn. Two of the next days headlines read Back to Work, Looming Fiscal Crisis Greets Obama and my favorite, America has Sown the Seeds of Its Own Demise.
Politicians either celebrated or decried the results, but regardless of party affiliation most warned of formidable challenges and a perilous future.
How did it come to pass that even the resolution of a contested election brings almost zero relief from the relentless focus on problems and threats? How did a country that for much of its history exhibited a (sometimes naive) willingness to ignore obstacles and plunge forward become a society that struggles to turn its gaze away from the dangers that loom just ahead? In short, how did the United States become so pessimistic?
Some of it surely has to do with how the past decade has unfolded. Without question, this has been a challenging time for America and much of the Western world. We can all recite the crises, disasters and failures: Y2K, the bursting of the Nasdaq stock market bubble in 2001, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Enron, WorldCom, the bursting of the housing bubble, the Wall Street implosion of 2008, the euro zones troubles, chronically high unemployment, anemic growth, the continued emergence of China as a global economic force. I could go on.
The bleak attitudes of the past decade are in stark contrast to the giddy optimism of the 1990s, a consequence of the Internet revolution,a soaring stock market and the end of the Cold War. Yet even then, the growth model that so many Americans took for granted was showing signs of strain. Manufacturing jobs were quietly evaporating, and incomes for the middle class were stagnating.
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When did America get so pessimistic?
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Around 9:00pm
well.. it might have something to do with the affirmative action idiot still in the whitehouse screwing things up as fast as he can between golf outings and family vacations.
Rooters to U. S. Citizens, “Come on, put on your happy face as Obama destroys what took over 238 years to build.”
And we are supposed to get information from this bunch?
When the Democrats came to power is when I became pessimistic.
Nah, can't be.
For me it was whn I realized that we have a narcicistic THUG
as Commander In Chief.
Always about him.
Thugish behavior to anyone who has questions.
Do you agree?
8 years of being told the economy is terrible followed by 4 years of the economy actually being terrible has left American quite sure things suck.
When Socialist from both gop and dem came to power is when I became pessimistic
bump
Does this about narrow things down enough for you??
Is the author a complete idiot or a misguided fool?
Does this writer seriously think that an election or simply pretending the problems don’t exist will make them go away?
LOL!
When did I get pessimistic?
When I found out that I am now a minority with fewer and fewer rights and far less freedom, I have a POtuS in the WH who hates white, married,Christian males who are conservative even more than he hates the rest of white America and everything it stands for and, even though we knew nothing about him, he was elected President by enough of the legal and illegal American people through fraud and pandering.
In 2008 the result had a certain inevitability about it - pitiful candidate, plus the media-generated impression that Odummy was a man of substance, plus the whole first-black-president thing. That didn’t depress me. Nov 6 2012 is it for me - the day my country committed suicide, shut down the lights on the shining city on a hill and joined the unwashed masses in the muck. People know how bad the putz is but voted for him anyway. That’s depressing.
When half of Americans realized that the other half are slutty, socialist, baby-killing morons, and that Obama is moving fast to put in place the mechanisms for killing millions of Americans, either by euthanasia, or starvation, or “riots,” or a Muslim dirty bomb.
Abe will explain from "the other side."
You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Obama is a biological-ideological issue of the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats.
The Other America's Elite Class.. and the Establishment's New Normal
Well it’s worked wonders over in Eurabia. /s
“Happy Days are Here Again”
I arrived at the website and something sick wrong evil and cloying was grabbing at my soul...it was if I were watching the VHS tape from “The Ring.”
I told my wife I had to get off and that we may check it out when she gets home...like I meant that.
Yes. That was about the time it set in for me...
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