I guess it's one of the benefits of being a pessimist - you kinda naturally expect that people are going to suck and act their worst, and every once in a great while you are pleasantly surprised. It's hard to be concerned about the state of the nation when you've been watching it slide into the crapper for, well, pretty much your entire life (and Kev's got a few years on me!). It's hard to be disappointed in your fellow man when you more or less expect them to plummet to the lowest common denominator off the bat.
I blog because, well, I'd be railing about this stuff anyways, and at least here I'm forced to at least to try to make some sense of it. Rather than yelling back at the TV, I grabbed my own little soapbox and rant away - Blogger is cheaper than Thorazine, after all. Kevin mentions being pissed off and bummed - here @ MArooned, we call that "Sunday through Saturday". The past eighty-plus years have been all about watching this curious experiment called "America" circle the drain; the past two years are but a blip on a long-running decline.
Will it get better? Some folks don't think it will, at least not in the short term. I don't mean to argue with my good friend Newbius, but please. Elections won't save us? They haven't done a damn bit of good the past hundred or so years - why should now be any different? Our government is lying to us? This is different from the past two hundred plus years how? The only thing that has changed in the past two decades is that the information is not as tightly controlled - just because we're hearing about more now doesn't mean that more is happening now.
In any case, I've got enough rage for everyone - and I'll be cranking up the vitriol accordingly to compensate...
That is all.
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I blame Sarah Palin ...
I know exactly how Kevin feels... its sooo blood pressure raising when you read the news and see what going on.. meanwhile many people in this country are just whistling past the graveyard .. and not paying attention....
Now is not the time to sit back and gripe about it. It's exactly the time to stand up and fight! Write to your elected officials. Tell them you'll vote them straight out of office if they don't listen to you. Get your friends to write those letters, too. Go to the hearing this afternoon if you don't want all those terrible anti-gun laws to come out of committee. Vote. Get your friends and family to vote.
This country isn't going down the tube because of politicians- it's because of our apathy in doing our job as Americans. I believe our best days could be ahead of us, if we're willing to get to work and bail out this sinking ship.
And no, I didn't mean we need any more bailouts.
No, Jay, elections will not save us. The reason is because the elections are rigged to encourage apathy and allow voter fraud. Turnout now has to not only overcome the normal vote differences, it has to overcome the margin of fraud too. Tammany Hall has nothing on this gang of liars and thieves.
Until and unless the remaining patriots (who have decided to sit it out for a while) get off their backsides and engage again, this Socialist machine will continue unabated. Orwell called it, just 25 years too early. 2009 was the culmination of his book.
As the dressing gets ripped off of the festering wound that is our society, and the political rot is laid bare for all to see, the People will get to decide between Liberty, or 'safety'. Are there enough true Americans left who will opt for Liberty? Doubtful. We will have to endure social unrest on a national scale before real change will occur. No, the Sheeple will opt for 'safety', and our liberty will get curtailed further until the strain causes something to give.
I know I sound down. I am not. I am optimistic by nature and someone who likes to fix things that are broken. However, some things are better left alone to break on their own, so that they may be replaced with something better. In my estimation, that something better looks a lot like the original Founder's Republic, before the meddlers, Progressives, and closet communists began dismantling it piecemeal beginning in 1911.
I hope I live long enough to see the rebirth of this nation.
Pax,
How I try Not to let Events over which I have No Control Affect Me, or Life Lesson from an Old Fart Time: Prepare for the Worst, Hope for the Best, and Keep your Powder Dry. But remember this: If it all goes to Hell in a Hand Basket, we ain't Sheeple.
But until then, I recommend some Chocolate Chip Ice Cream.
And Bourbon.
And Range Time.
Bitchin' at the Assholes running things also makes me feel good, but as for Influencing them, I don't think it'll do much good. But it beats keeping my disdain for those jerks from eating at my gut.
As for the Abyss: Screw it. If it wants to spend time looking back at me, then it's dumber than a Box of Rocks. I have more important things to do, at least according to my Wife and her Honey Do Jar.
Ymmv, of course.
Elections do change things. Maybe not as fast as we'd like, but they do matter. The ATF gun smuggling scandal would not have broken at all if the Democrats still controlled the House.
Blogs and the Internet have been a huge game changer and will continue to affect elections and politicians. If Breitbart hadn't broken the Weiner story, we'd have never known about it.
The MSM can no longer act as gate keepers.
This statement: "The MSM can no longer act as gate keepers." is the reason I am still plugging away, albeit sporadically right now.
We patriots need to reengage at the local level, most especially at the school boards, city councils, and grass-roots political party activism to begin the reversal of the trends that have played against us for decades.
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