“Romney may win, but not decisively. That says a lot about the state of the electorate and none of it is good. America is in decline. There is no doubt about that. A failed, divisive, incompetent President like Obama should not be able to pull almost 50% of the vote.”
Agree that America is (currently) in decline. However, you must also cite the corruption media tail wind that every D receives - millions worth of free TV prop up and emotional support and defense, and in contrast attack and undermining of the R message. How many points is that worth? How much of that bump can be laid at the feet of average Americans? We’re finally beginning to see the reverse of that, with that old media dying - but not yet. That old, dying advantage, though dying out more and more each year, is still worth I think 5 or 10 points easily to the D TOTUS or candidate. So perhaps America is not as far dead, as we think, and is more manipulated and the target of the psychological war of the Rat corrupted media.
Just sayin’...
And you said it well, Bruce. Thanks.
There’s another thing that gives me hope for the future of the country. The Leftward lurch on social issues over the last several decades is something that primarily appeals to people who are either single or childless. Married couples with kids are much more Conservative.
30-40 years ago, you didn’t have so many single and childless adults. Pretty much everyone got married and had kids, and being a Democrat was much more about economic issues.
I’m 50 years old and I know so many of my peers who are childless and who either never married or waited until they were well into their 40’s to marry and don’t plan on having kids. And they’re all Liberals. All scared to death about religious Christians in “Jesusland”. All obsessed with global warming. All convinced that the era when divorce rates, teen pregnancies rates, and out of wedlock birth rates were much, much lower than today (along with abortion rates, which logically follows the other statistics) was “the dark ages”.
Raising a family adds a dimension to your life that changes your perspective on many things. I’m a real estate agent and I was recently showing apartments to a single Gay guy. One apartment that I showed him overlooked a courtyard with a small private playground that hardly ever gets used. He said to me, “sorry, but I don’t do kids”.
While it’s not pleasant to listen a baby crying or a toddler having a temper tantrum, the fact is, people never used to talk like that about children years ago. You didn’t have this whole culture of people who were proud of being childless.
So I’m optimistic that the future belongs to the children, the majority of whom will grow up with more Conservative values.