[gramho12]

I’m 66 and just posted on another thread that I am through with the political process. I have played by the rules, voted in every election since I was 21, and realize now we can never win, since rules and law don’t matter anymore. Let’s face it, Soros has finally won, the new world order will be set in place, so there really is no place to run. I know I sound like a defeatist, and I am normally an optimistic person, but I see the writing on the wall, and it ain’t good.

[newnhdad]

I’m a little younger but I feel the same way. This was for all the marbles and while we were concerned about the rules, the other guy stole the marbles, again.

The people of the US just voted for higher taxes, increased education costs, increased government intervention, increased energy costs, increased healthcare costs, less religious liberty and increased illegal immigration. Not all the people, just a majority of people in a few states imposed this on the rest of the country.

I’m through.

[New Perspective]

I hear you loud and clear. I am 20 years younger but feel the exact same way. I have always played by the rules, took care of myself, and helped others, but not anymore. I will now play by the same set of rules that the left play by, lie, take what I can, and when a democrat comes to my door for help I will point them right to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

I have always paid for my health insurance but now I will have to pay a Cadillac tax on my plan because I PAY for my plan. If I had just not paid for health insurance, invested the money and just went to the ER I would be way ahead. But that is not who I am and that WAS not the America I was brought up in.

We are now in a new dimension where rules are selectively applied.

[chimera]

I'm coming around to your viewpoint. I am sixty-something myself and am about done with it. I was willing to write off 2008 as a knee-jerk spasm anti-Bush reaction, but it is clear to me now that a majority of the electorate evidently favors a Fabian socialist government rather than individual liberty, self-sufficiency and personal initiative. This may take a complete collapse and re-build from the ground up. Jefferson alluded to this when he wrote that idea into the Declaration. You and I may live to see the beginning of it (perhaps now), but I don't think we'll live to see the end of it (for one reason or another).