A lot of us are probably a little bummed about the result.
But this reflects poorly on conservatives and people who hold to fiscally conservative positions.
How is it that a group with so much economic and political capital cannot transform it into social and cultural capital?
Because it's clear that social and cultural capital wins elections. Obama's re-election campaign was terrible. He got his ass handed to him in the debates. He has a terrible track record to run on. He failed to inspire people. His goals are explicitly different from the jobs/economy prism we're supposedly viewing everything through.
And he still won.
I'm disappointed in the election results. Not because Romney lost, but because I think the decision to go with the kind of policies Obama espoused represents a really worrying trend in the US.
We're not worried about fiscal responsibility, economic growth, the fundamentals of what makes a health country and a healthy economy- you know, the larger ecosystem.
Rather what's taking center stage is issues like gay marriage, marijuana, the going green fad, and all this trivial shit.
People have become dumbed-down consumers. The perfect customer, the ideal audience.
But this audience of morons now run your government. They used to be people who kept you rich as consumers, but now they'll run you into the ground as the largest, most powerful voting bloc this country has ever seen.
PS- I know this sounds like Hellblazer, and I know this might sounds like insinuations about race, but it's not.
It's about a culture, a set of values that at their core are not conducive to functional societies. Conditions that foster consumers but stifle producers.
So many of you see this. So many of you understand this. But have you figured out how the hell one half of the country has failed to communicate the truth of this message to the rest of the country?
I'm scared of turning into Canada or Europe. Not because of their culture or history. But because fundamentally, when more than 50% of your income, your property goes to the government, you are not the active agent in control of your own destiny, making your own choices, committing your own actions, determining your decisions.
You're a minority shareholder in the organization that is your life.
But this reflects poorly on conservatives and people who hold to fiscally conservative positions.
How is it that a group with so much economic and political capital cannot transform it into social and cultural capital?
Because it's clear that social and cultural capital wins elections. Obama's re-election campaign was terrible. He got his ass handed to him in the debates. He has a terrible track record to run on. He failed to inspire people. His goals are explicitly different from the jobs/economy prism we're supposedly viewing everything through.
And he still won.
I'm disappointed in the election results. Not because Romney lost, but because I think the decision to go with the kind of policies Obama espoused represents a really worrying trend in the US.
We're not worried about fiscal responsibility, economic growth, the fundamentals of what makes a health country and a healthy economy- you know, the larger ecosystem.
Rather what's taking center stage is issues like gay marriage, marijuana, the going green fad, and all this trivial shit.
People have become dumbed-down consumers. The perfect customer, the ideal audience.
But this audience of morons now run your government. They used to be people who kept you rich as consumers, but now they'll run you into the ground as the largest, most powerful voting bloc this country has ever seen.
PS- I know this sounds like Hellblazer, and I know this might sounds like insinuations about race, but it's not.
It's about a culture, a set of values that at their core are not conducive to functional societies. Conditions that foster consumers but stifle producers.
So many of you see this. So many of you understand this. But have you figured out how the hell one half of the country has failed to communicate the truth of this message to the rest of the country?
I'm scared of turning into Canada or Europe. Not because of their culture or history. But because fundamentally, when more than 50% of your income, your property goes to the government, you are not the active agent in control of your own destiny, making your own choices, committing your own actions, determining your decisions.
You're a minority shareholder in the organization that is your life.