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Why So Serious? Is Conservative Despair Justified?
PJ Media ^ | 1/8/2013 | Andrew Klavan

Posted on 01/08/2013 8:16:06 AM PST by Lakeshark

So last week, in what was perhaps a moment of madness, I posted a request on my Facebook page: Tell me your political predictions for the year. Among the more restrained answers: “Hyperinflation,” “Civil War,” “financial collapse,” “terribly awful things.”

Optimist though I am, I can’t help feeling there’s something to this downhearted consensus. After living through the most peaceful and prosperous half century that any nation has ever experienced in the history of humankind, it seems impossible to believe we would re-elect a mediocre reactionary out to “fundamentally transform” our success into failure. But we did, and that’s — well, let’s call it “less than cheering.”

On the other hand…

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A not so convincing attempt to cheer us up.

Still, it's a worthwhile read, another step towards some kind of sanity.

Post all your reasons we are doomed here to get rid of them; also, post all of your reasons we can make it and how on this thread as well.

If nothing else, this could be a good way to vent.......

Have at it.

1 posted on 01/08/2013 8:16:09 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark

I like Andrew Klavan and see him as an eternal optimist. I could sure use one right about now...


2 posted on 01/08/2013 8:18:13 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Lakeshark

“Is Conservative Despair Justified?”

No, because we have God, Guns, and Guts.


3 posted on 01/08/2013 8:18:35 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: onyx; C. Edmund Wright; Servant of the Cross
For your reading amusement. I also came across this interesting quote supposedly from Zig Ziglar:

Fear: Has two meanings:
1. Forget everything and run
or
2. Forget everything and rise

The choice is yours!

4 posted on 01/08/2013 8:20:41 AM PST by Lakeshark (!)
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To: Lakeshark

I’ve been trying to shake the doom and gloom. It’s hard.

Does one simply stop paying attention? What am I gaining by focusing on what could happen?


5 posted on 01/08/2013 8:22:05 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Lakeshark
A not so convincing attempt to cheer us up.

Why So Serious?

As in the Dark Knight, the good guys win in the end. But there will be much suffering before it happens.

6 posted on 01/08/2013 8:22:42 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Lakeshark
Things, in other words, are almost as bad as they always are.

Exactly. Whether one is feeling down and endeavoring to drag others down, or keeping calm and carrying on, depends much more on the person one is than on anything happening outside the individual.

7 posted on 01/08/2013 8:24:15 AM PST by Tax-chick (Please explain how my being in a fuss would help the situation.)
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To: Lakeshark
Just wait until Br0nc0 makes his SCOTUS picks.

The country went over the cliff in November.

8 posted on 01/08/2013 8:26:58 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: demshateGod
No, because we have God, Guns, and Guts.
Then how did we end up with legal abortion, runaway welfare, taxes up the whazoo, illegals by the tens of millions, 70% illegitimate birthrate, outrageous gun control, school systems that brainwash, same sex marriage .... need I go on?
And all I hear are conservatives talking - like Rush, Hannity, et al - who do nothing BUT talk. Even Glenn Beck has been forced into a hole.
So, if we do have God, Guns, and Guts ... ain't no one using them. This "fiscal cliff" BS we just went through is just another example.
9 posted on 01/08/2013 8:29:16 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Lakeshark
Nothing personal but

I've never been so pessimistic about the future of this nation.

10 posted on 01/08/2013 8:30:40 AM PST by McGruff (No New RINOs!)
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To: Lakeshark

Momentary disappointment is occasionally inevitable. However despair is not an appropriate emotion for a disciple of Christ to wear day-to-day.

(I’m glad you didn’t ask about anger though. :-) I have some issues with THAT one.)


11 posted on 01/08/2013 8:30:40 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Lakeshark
Most conservatives and it would appear at least a large plurality of freepers still are unaware of what they are facing.

A demographic avalanche of progressive voters wanting handouts and minority preference and payback for every reason imaginable and there is not enough of the majority demographic of any kind to stop them unless the majority demographic moves right.

We cannot pick off enough minority votes to matter.

Every minority of any sort votes leftist now by at least 2/3rds including many like Orientals and Jews who are for the most part well off.

it is not just a class struggle

it is war on what is perceived by many as a white, heartland, gun owning, Christian, marrying and baby having majority the progressives despise and want to diminish

I thought we could hold out a few more elections but a weak candidate like Romney and his defensive campaign against Obama accelerated the inevitable

baring cataclysm or a 5-10% shift amongst white voters in PA, OH, VA, FL , CO, NV and MN, it's over as we know it

or a super turnout of conservatives accompanied by a low minority and white liberal turnout...not likely..kind of a paradox

12 posted on 01/08/2013 8:37:06 AM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: Lakeshark
Look, I’m not exactly sanguine. Our republic has gone past the 200-year limit for republics.

I like AK a lot, but I'm unaware of any limit on a republic's life that is justified by history.

13 posted on 01/08/2013 8:38:39 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Lakeshark; onyx; Servant of the Cross

LS it’s interesting you bring up Zig, whose work has had tremendous impact in my life. I have wondered these last weeks if Obama’s re-election killed Zig.

Zig was an optimist, but his optimism was based on two foundations: his faith in God, and his faith in America. He was a master at how to keep positive and achieve success even in a “down economy.” But Zig, as one of the few motivational guru’s who’s work is based in foundational truth, had to know that America as he has known is perhaps no more. He had to know, deep in his bones, that this rips the secondary foundation out from all of his motivational teachings.

I think it hastened his death, which allows Zig now to move on to the ultimate truth, which was his primary foundation.

Just thoughts I’ve been having about Zig for several weeks now....


14 posted on 01/08/2013 8:42:45 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Lakeshark
Mike in East Texas..

..listen to Mike all the way thru...also, an "oldie but goodie"...

It's Time to Part Company

15 posted on 01/08/2013 8:48:21 AM PST by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance........)
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To: wardaddy
Our "situation" has been predicted time after time over the past years...and they all had the same outcome...dictatorship and tyranny......when it is discovered that people can vote themselves largess from the public treasury, its all over.......and it always ends in tyranny.

Listen to Mike in East Texas from last Monday Morning:

Mike in East Texas

16 posted on 01/08/2013 9:06:49 AM PST by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance........)
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To: McGruff
"I've never been so pessimistic about the future of this nation."

Likewise. One only needs to look at the voting statistics from the last election, read a few liberal blogs or listen to progressive radio a bit and then listen to Obama himself.

Conclusion: this isn't going to be pretty. I'd say it isn't going to end well and that may not be the case. However, it is most likely going to get much worse before it gets better.

I pray for America and ask God to bless and protect great people like Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, and Sarah Palin. They give me hope.

17 posted on 01/08/2013 9:10:38 AM PST by Baynative (Those that work for a living are now outnumbered by those that vote for a living.)
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To: Lakeshark

The end of the Cold War untethered the nutball wing of the Dem party and they now control it. The more “moderate” careerist Dem types moved under the GOP tent and here we are.

With amnesty on the horizon and a GOP unwilling to fight like dems I don’t see a happy ending, unfortunately.


18 posted on 01/08/2013 9:12:16 AM PST by lodi90
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To: wardaddy

The sad reality is that we are a very badly divided country.


19 posted on 01/08/2013 9:14:23 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Lakeshark

That is why this country is now new Christian missionary terrority.


20 posted on 01/08/2013 9:16:41 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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