Posted on 11/07/2012 11:12:51 AM PST by KosmicKitty
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Since 3am this morning when I got up and checked the election results, I've been trying to figure out what happened. Mr. Kitty sent me a blog post that I really think explains why BO actually won a second term.
And while it may be combination of many things, I really do believe that the main reason Obama won is because of a dramatic change to the social structure of the United States.
Those of us old enough to remember the Carter presidency believed that, like Reagan's landslide victory, people would be so fed up with the economy, high gas prices, Middle East unrest, and so on, that Romney would win and win big. (When everything old is new again)
But what we didn't consider was the change in American culture that has happened in the last 30 years. Looking at the stats on the blog I have linked to, the largest group voting for Obama is single women, with or without children. In 1980, most women having children were married. now, women are marrying later or choosing not to marry at all whether of not they have children.
What we have now is a society where the traditional male role of husband/father has been supplanted by the government. 40% of all children are being born to single mothers, more than 70% if the mother is African American. America's voting population has experienced a dramatic change in the past 30 years.
What ever the cause, feminism, careers, etc., we have to face the fact that a large number casting their vote are looking at the government as a replacement for husband and father.
I really believe that it's not that Mitt wasn't conservative enough, or the evangelicals stayed home, or whatever. It's the fact that the voting population has changed and the majority of women voting aren't voting for a president, but are voting for government to support them.
If the republicans and/or conservatives want to win, they are going to have to find a way to address the issue of government as supporter/daddy for a majority of the women voters
Ever since the primary debate when George Snuffleupagus seemingly out of nowhere asked Willard Mitt Romney about birth control (he’s Mormon, so I guess his position is “missionary”), we should have known how the leftists in the media and the Obama campaign (redundant, I know) intended to define the campaign. Because on radio ads, on TV, and on the web, the Democrats tried to make this election about a single issue:The right to slut.
Or more precisely, the right to slut without the responsibility of consequences. The famous “gender gap” isn’t really a gap based on gender. The right overwhelmingly wins older and married women. The “gender gap” should more accurately be called the slut vote.
That's the question, exactly, How do we get across to a generation of women that has been raised to believe that they don't need a man and that the government will provide for them that THEY are the ones who are really suffering.
I was listening to Rush on the way home from work today and he was talking about all of the minority role models in the GOP and how they all benefitted from hard work and their parent's sacrificing for them.
How do we get across to these women that, while they may feel "liberated" they are really being enslaved? How can we explain the feeling of sacrifice and hard work and the feeling of accomplishment that comes with it?
This statement nailed it!..if only it were not true
Good government starts at home.
Then proceed to your community.
If your community supports constitutional government then move to your city or county government and use the tools our Founders provided to us to make them return to constitutionality.
Continue up the chain.
Now, how does good government start at home? Mother/Father, father is the authority and the ‘leader’ of the family government. Children can learn how good government works at home.
Schools are supposed to teach civics, but don’t. In your community, use your skills to re-institute civics, so children understand the dangers of other systems of government to their freedom and well being.
This is where you begin. It is the very thing the communists in our country targeted to destroy.
Rush nailed it:
From another thread
Half the country is made of children, Obama got re-elected by being Santa Claus, and WE”RE supposed to be the ELVES that make everything!
The only way to address this issue is to offer them more goodies than do the democrats.
We can either choose to out-bid the democrats for their vote or we can try to convince them that liberty and self sufficiency embodied in our founding documents is the best way to go.
I think we know which message will prevail. We are screwed.
Last night we received the answer: $9/mo. in birth control pills.
No way.
Look at the numbers it was low R turnout.
Four long years of doing everything to destroy this Country and Hussein gets one photo op with Chris "Krispy Kreme" Christie slobbering over him on one day and it gets he re-elected.
Everything happens for a reason and we may never know or understand why this tribulation has been visited upon us.
Rush put it best today: In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?
MSM—MSM—MSM—MSM—MSM—PERIOD End of argument
Not the blog I was looking at, but that says it right there.
Confession, in my younger days I bought into the whole, I bought into the whole “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”. Luckily for me, with age comes wisdom and I realized that what is being sold to women is a bad set of goods.
Once you give up responsibility for yourself, you are a prisoner to those who provide for you.
How can conservatives get that message out?
I travel to urban areas throughout the country for work. I don’t think many people truly grasp the demographics that are developing in this country. They recall the days of their youth a few decades ago and see things as relatively the same.
I have been to parts of Queens, NY that literally look nothing like the United States. Huge concentrations of people, where perhaps 5 -8% were Caucasian. I am not talking about a black/white thing, I am talking about unchecked immigration that amounts to a total invasion of the country I knew as a child.
When the huge recession economic disaster hits—the ME explodes and terrorism comes to our shores the MSM will have the seep convinced they never had it so good and they will lap it up
The white rich Presidential-looking Romney and his Father Knows Best family, ultra-wholesome, ultra successful etc. said "I vote for love my country." His 'vote for Country', could not resonate with our majority victim class like good old 'revenge.'
That is the reason why I posted. I hope to get a discussion about what we can do to counter the victim mentality that the left pushes.
The revenge factor is the old REPARATIONS notion materialized.
I think we have to admit right now that we have lost the media. We can gripe about it all we want, but we HAVE to find a way to get our message out there.
Take away the votes cast by illegal aliens and other non-registered voters and I think it would have made all the difference.
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