In my opinion, the following quote from the last blog entry was where everything started to go south:
“My fellow Americans, I am blaming you. Everything we have today is your fault. It is my fault. It is our fault.”
Sorry, but that is where you lost me. I will take no blame for the election of Obama. None. I have done nothing by either an act of commission or omission that is responsible for bringing Obama upon us.
If your main point was truly: “Stop Blaming Obama,” then you would have done well by focusing on the machine that brought him to power and the ignorance of the populace.
However, your main point was that it’s our fault, and you were (and are) acting under the assumption that we’re not doing anything and that we have to start opposing Obama.
That doesn’t sit well with us, some of whom are literally sticking our necks out to inform a populace about the danger our Republic faces. It wasn’t enough for me to flame you, but it did make me angry.
Americans love a winner, and they eventually hate a whiner. The informed don’t like being lumped in with the uninformed. We also don’t like being complained to about our supposed complaining.
Inspiring leaders operate under the premise that “You’ve done well, now let’s do even better!” Identify the problem, and then identify the solution in a non-condescending way. You will do much better in the future.
I imagine my primary failing, then, is that I assume people who are not described in a criticism will not take offense. That is, those who are actually trying would be as pissed off at those who are bitching instead of helping that they would understand what I’m getting at.
How the heck do I voice that without being so simplistic as saying “if this doesn’t apply to you...” or “you know who you are?”