This is really good and I borrowed it from a friend on Facebook, Matthew Perry. It really put into words why I've been so overwhelmingly sad today.
This
election marks the end of the conservative Republican party as we have
come to know it and the end of the collective individualist American
spirit. There will still be those of us who will hold these truths to
our hearts and vote accordingly, however the candidates we will vote for
will be grossly watered down versions of the Ronald Reagan Republican
model. With the coming presidential directives, our immigration laws
AND wishes will be a thing of the past. We will actually be getting
your tired, your poor, your huddled masses only without the yearning to
be free. They will be yearning for the entitlements that we so
willingly give out with only the mildest checks and balances. We will
create a nation of immigrants who do not yearn to see themselves as
Americans, but as a national of the land from which they came. These
directives along with the eroding of our actual Constitutional rights
will be upheld by a Supreme Court moved so far to the left with 2
replacements, that not only will the Constitution be a “living,
breathing document”, it will mean what those in power say it means
whenever they want it to. Our own citizens will be left without the
prospects of a brighter future as the family structure and educational
systems having failed them horribly will find themselves without any
hope for employment as all the lowest of jobs will have been taken by
immigrants. The possibility of other jobs will disappear as the
progressive party continues to push for ever higher minimum wages
forcing small business to cut back on staff so they can meet payroll.
This will force the masses to the ever-welcoming arms of the government.
We will continue to borrow from our economic foes to pay for these
ever-expanding entitlements. Businesses will be without startup capital
from anywhere but the government as those with the means to invest
search for other means to keep their wealth under the burden of massive
tax rates. The only business getting funding being ones that fit the
ideological profile of the party in power. These businesses will go
bankrupt as so many already have due to promises made with no hope of
being able to be carried out. We will forgo our own reserves of energy,
yet continually hoping that government fiat, not capitalism will
produce the energy we need. We will continue to grow more dependent on
foreign energy as our own is neglected. Once the scales have been
tipped to 52% of the people in this country receiving the majority of
their daily living from the government, it will be too late to turn
back. An electorate will not vote against its self-interests in order
to stem off disaster they are told “will not be as bad as predicted”
when even a 5th grader with a calculator can figure out that you can put
out more than you take in only for so long. Politicians will be forced
to continue these entitlements for fear of being rejected. Elections
will boil down to Facebook posts and Tweets promising more and better
entitlements where no meaningful dialog will ever take place as to how
to pay for it. The electorate will listen and believe because Jay Leno
or Saturday Night Live told them this was the reality and a 30 second
attention span is only capable of understanding 140 characters at a time
before we need to move on to bigger things like who the next American
Idol is. At some point China will demand payment, possibly around 2014
when we are expected to be downgraded because Washington couldn’t decide
how to stop us from going over the fiscal cliff. We will have a
moderate or progressive presidential candidate in 2016 who will feign
ever so slightly to the right to placate what is left of the
conservative Republican party but promise the world to unions and the
entitled when he is in their presence. The media will fawn over the
need for civility and compromise but continuously pick and chew at the
“radical” conservative we are able to put up and he/she will be
defeated. From that point on, we will be a splinter party, the
Conservative Party, relegated to the annals of history along with the
radical Founding Fathers and their wish for an America that was the
light of the World, longingly holding onto Old Glory as a representation
of not what we could have become, yet of what we are. We are Greece.
