POST ELECTION MUSINGS

I searched in vain through all of my favorite patriotic, conservative web sites and found not a glimmer of hope or positive thinking about the Obama re-election. Here are a few cogent observations:

"As the election day approached I listened to a wealth of pundits and "experts" babble about the coming Romney landslide victory; but behind all that noise you could (if so inclined) listen to countless interviews with Obama supporters at rallies and other public places and come to the realization that you're hearing the voice of the new "gimme stuff" majority. Poor John F. Kennedy would turn over in his grave if he could see what we have become. At the celebration of victory, a large number of smiley Obama supporters were asked the simple question: what do you think about "freedom" in relation to the Obama victory and not one person mentioned the concept of freedom of opportunity. Invariably they were ecstatic about their promised freedom from responsibility and freedom from having to work for a living. A loud group of student Obama admirers were heard chanting "Karl Marx", "Karl Marx", "Karl Marx" with exhortations for Socialism."
CB

Ann Coulter had it right when she said:

"People are suffering. The country is in disarray. If Mitt Romney cannot win in this economy, then the tipping point has been reached. We have more takers than makers and it's over. There is no hope."

We certainly cannot say we haven't been warned. In the mid-19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville, French political thinker and historian (best known for his Democracy in America) said the following:

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."


From an article in the Prague newspaper Prager Zeitungon:

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America.

THE REPUBLIC CAN SURVIVE A BARACK OBAMA, WHO IS, AFTER ALL, MERELY A FOOL. IT IS LESS LIKELY TO SURVIVE A MULTITUDE OF FOOLS, SUCH AS THOSE WHO MADE HIM THEIR PRESIDENT."
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"The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living."
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Our once democratic republic has been replaced by a new system of government:

Ineptocracy -in-ep-toc'-ra-cy-
A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

In the aftermath of the election, author/columnist Mark Steyn summarized the result perfectly:

"Americans as a whole have joined the rest of the Western world in voting themselves a lifestyle they are not willing to earn. The longer any course correction is postponed the more convulsive it will be. Alas, on Tuesday, the electorate opted to defer it for another four years. I doubt they’ll get that long."

In "America Alone" Mark Steyn describes the mentality of the typical European which has now been fully infused into the philosophy of life for the American "gimme stuff" electorate:

"You're having a grand old time, you stayed in university till you were thirty-eight, you took early retirement at forty-five, you had two months vacation a year, you drank wine, you ate fine foods, you marched in the street for a twenty-eight hour work week . . . It was all such great fun . . . "

 

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