Can't change the results, so no use lamenting over them.
There are a couple things that were learned over the course of this election and the campaigns.
I believe that America was founded on the belief that people, not Government, would support them. The founding fathers, who created this great nation had a couple things to say:
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson
"A wise and frugal government,...leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned-this is the sum of good government." Thomas Jefferson
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Benjamin Franklin
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." Thomas Jefferson
"The Government that governs best...governs least." Thomas Jefferson
Too many liberals claim that the reason Republicans lost is because they haven't adopted the more progressive vision of our country-- I am a fan of the adage: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Our country did not grow to become #1 in the world on it's flawed vision; it's lack of progression.
Honestly, during the last 4 years I saw my money being spent for me...to companies that went bankrupt, robbing medicaid to pay for a government take over of healthcare, the compromised security of our representatives in other nations...when they asked for help!! and ended up dying because the request was not granted. Jobs have not improved to make me terribly optimistic to find one once we graduate college, gas is stupidly high...these are a few reasons that make me nervous about what they will do to my future, as well as that of my children.
No one can be so naive as to deny that in every great civilization in history, after a great rise to success, once they became a nation of dole, they fell. You cannot build anything by taking from those who will work and give to those who will not. We take care of our poor, but not enable them. And that is what this President's administration has done, and now will continue to do. The "level the playing field" rhetoric is ridiculous. The playing field is level. If you want success, you go to college, find a job and work hard. I know of too many people who have risen through the bottom 'rung' of society and climbed extremely hard. But not without hard work. And that's the difference. I cannot believe that someone who is struggling and says that there is no opportunity has tried every option available. Hard work is hard, but if you want success bad enough, you will find a way. There have been entire movies dedicated to this very truth.
Our nation has now turned into a majority who would rather live off the benefits of others' work, who will believe the rhetoric of a television ad instead of do the side by side comparisons them self. When over 90% of the black population vote for Obama-even though their belief system goes against his stance on abortion and homosexuality-it is sad that some vote more on the color of one's skin than their core beliefs. When I watch a video of a father and son celebrating Obama's victory because their skin matches his, or preachers on the radio telling everyone to vote for Obama so that the 'baton will be passed to their kids', and famous rappers saying that they finally have a voice with Obama as President...it hurts.
Are they saying that up until 2008 they have had no voice? Their liberties and freedoms were not available? What did Obama give them that wasn't present previously? If the Republican candidate was black, would there be so many voting for Obama? My family is a mixed racial family. We have white, black and Polynesian. And you never find any bias toward any one of them. There is a unity and it's a great feeling. After reading so many tweets after the election talking about class and color distinction between Obama, Romney and themselves...makes me sad that so many think the nation is still not unified. I asked them if they wanted a unified nation, and they said it has never been and will never be. I told them I hope they are wrong and that it will be unified, but if everyone continues to negatively attack and tear down in this manner it will never unify the Nation. If it doesn't build, it destroys.
A great man in our Church ward here in Ohio who is black said that he is not voting for Romney because he hasn't stood up for his moral beliefs. I think he was referring to the abortion issue when Romney was governor. I couldn't help but think, so you believe that Obama more closely resembles your moral beliefs in accordance to what the Church teaches? How can anyone, if professing a vote for the candidate who will resemble their core moral beliefs, choose Obama over Romney-abortion, homosexuality and the like have not changed with the Church. There is no question there.
It makes me sad that some say they finally have a voice. I strongly disagree if they think Bush or Reagan ever thought to restrict the black population in any way. It probably never crossed their minds to sign any legislation that would favor one race above another. Bush would not have placed Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice into the position of power he did if he believed in the way that the famous rapper claimed-that the blacks have no voice, no influence or power. Colin Powell was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And that was under a Republican President. How would that rapper feel if the Presidential Election had been between Obama and Colin Powell? Where's the distinction of voice in that battle?
I have a problem with a President, in any place in history, who, on National television during a Presidential debate would resort to childish behavior. When Obama mocked Romney's claim that our military is being too far reduced, by pulling a horses and bayonets comment, or that the 1980s were calling for their foreign policy, that is not the way I would wish for the leader of the free country to exemplify the people he represents.
If people really were concerned about the economy foremost like they claimed, then what better man to choose than a guy who was hand-picked to come into a backward sliding Olympics and turn it around completely? Or go from a billion dollar deficit in his state of Massachusetts to a surplus? They mock Romney for his wealth, but how did he gain such wealth? By being successful in helping companies to grow. Is that not what we want for our Nation's economy? From small businesses to Olympics to his governed state, he was able to turn the status from economic woe to stability. Is there any doubt that he has more experience to speak of in this arena than Obama? So again, if that is truly at the heart of what people were concerned about, and emotions and all other side issues were left out, it stands that Romney should have been our next President...to continue leaving the same footprint he made in the private sector, the Olympics and an entire State.
This statement that I read has so much truth to it:
"In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?"
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