Posted on 11/15/2012 2:41:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Barely had the counting ceased in last week’s presidential election when the news took a somber turn. Two of the next day’s 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 zone’s 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 we realized:
The MSM whored for Democrats... and were proud of it. ZERO concern about right or wrong - just what letter was beside a person's name. Two standards - one that always was biased against us. One that favored liberal elites.
Election rigging considered 'cool' by democrats. No outrage about voter fraud. (Their team cheated so it was OK)
Conservatives boycotted by Hollywood. 'Entertainment - such as it was - was only for liberals - and often at our expense.
Conservatives painted as 'extremists' by democrats and their creepy totalitarians thugs. The MSM - with ZERO proof jumped on it with glee.
Union goons portrayed as heroes.
Stories of Bill Clinton raping a woman bringing laughter from liberal elites - it's 'just sex' - hahaha...
All types of abuse of the powerless by democrats treated as a joke.
Teachers who can't teach retained because they're unions had an 'in' with democrats elites. Schools used to push liberal values - as offensive as it would be if they were pushing conservative values.
Awareness that many minorities didn't come here 'yearning to be free' but to milk the system - and it was OK with liberal elites - because those wanting to rip off the system voted for democrats and helped propped up a corrupt system.
When one day conservatives knew this wasn't the country we had loved and our strongest desire toward the place was to live someplace else.
Just about the time the results started looking a little bleak for the removal of the Current Regime by peaceful means?
Nah, just another isolated and unrelated conincidence. Ya just gotta go through the blues sometimes, ya know?
I thought this must have been The Onion!
Yep.
So far I've been able to document ~70,000 people laid off or notified since then.
Passage of Obamacare did it for me, along with Justice Robert’s decision.
I think it fundamentally changed the nation forever.
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.”
That is precisely why prayer is our most potent weapon. We are up against some serious evil and we desperately need some Serious Good to fend off the evil. The best laid plans of men will be of no avail without the intervention of God. Pray for that.
Excellent post.
The election of Bill Clinton
It’s been downhill ever since
I guess he's sort of futurist here, skipping over the tough stuff in the immediate future and talking about long term possibilities.
There is no point in explaining this to anyone stupid enough to ask. When you combine an evil anti-American communist in our White House with a significant minority of Americans who actually think that is a good enough idea to try the experiment for eight years, pessimism becomes indistinguishable from realism.
for the last 30+ years, the media has been telling us that we are too stupid to control our own lives. They tell us that the other guy has too much stuff and there’s nothing you can do about except for electing democrats and they’ll get it for you. They tell us we were built on the backs of slaves, indians and exploitation and they wonder why people are pessimistic?
Actually, when Obama started using his excuse and continual campaign mantra: I inherited the worst economy since the GREAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTT DEPRESSSSSSSSION
When we all became Socialists?
It started in Nov 2008 and REALLY escalated in Nov 2012.
Amen, but take heart Jess, I was once a lefty myself.
If you knew what the bad guys were doing then you would be pessimistic especially if we couldn’t stop it. There are so many threats to America that it is hard to know where to start. This why even people in the tea party groups don’t know everything. I feel that I should do a list of all the threats facing this country, but it hard to know where to begin. There so many different kinds of threats as well which lead people to claim different things will happen in doomsday scenarios. Then you get angry at following the rabid left. They just don’t get it.
I am no longer a Republican. I went independent. I’ve had enough. They will just push Jeb in 2016. They can’t figure out that if they alienate their conservative base, they just lose.
At the same time, the Hispanic vote is becoming so large, I don’t think the Republican party can hold much national power very much longer anyway. A couple of decades or so should see the US go to being a one-party Democrat nation with a Democratic Party president, and control of both the House and the Senate. California is just a bellwether of what is to come.
I am ALWAYS early on my predictions, so maybe it takes to 2050, but it will come. The Republican party is dying right along with the USA.
The USA as we know it will not survive the next 4 years. The die is cast. We are now a socialist nation, the economy will have to collapse, demographics will doom the Republicans, including conservatives. All there is left to do is fight the rear guard delaying action. They die is cast. The fix is in. It is over.
All of the above
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