I agree that change is coming. I see some tough times, but not end of the world stuff. The primary problem is that folks have gotten to fear the future. I find that a very un-American attitude.
Forget the Obama stuff — Change you can believe in — I have no idea what that even means. Though I’m old enough so that I don’t understand a lot of advertising slogans these days.
The deal seems simple: You look at change with a clear eye — free of ideology and the way things should be — and deal with it the best you can. Change shouldn’t be an excuse for failure or nuttiness.
Not the end of the world, but a long hiatus in the ever-upward climb of our standard of living. An end, for as long as these people are in total power, of what we all have always assumed was our birthright: to work hard and keep the fruits of our labor and pass them on to our children. This is now *selfish* and *unpatriotic*. We are to give most of our earnings to idiots to hand over to entitled fools, minus the rake-off, in exchange for keeping the idiots in power forever.
I think there is fear because America as we have known her has changed almost beyond recognition. Our politicians are hell-bent on starving our economy of fuel, encouraging dependency, demonizing success, insisting on reeducating us away from religion and our traditions of free speech and the right to keep and bear arms as individuals. They are destroying our currency, our sovereignty, our basic values, our families, our businesses and the jobs they provide, and everything we have worked for that is the basis of our security. In the name of tolerance, Christians, Republicans, conservatives and anyone with any unencumbered assets or who owns any means of production is to be humiliated and threatened with everything from disenfranchisement to confiscation. If we complain, we are overreacting. If we fight back, we are mean-spirited. If we simply state our own ideology, we are ridiculed.
I am with you on the pragmatism and I believe that is what we are seeing in these sorts of articles and threads. Failure and nuttiness are causing the fear, not the other way around.
How can we forget zerO? He is our President. His party is in complete control of both houses of Congress. Within 4 years, he has a chance of changing the SCOTUS so that it is also under the control of progressives and the next stop on their agenda is the foundation of our nation: the Constitution. He is the anti-Lincoln, who will bring about a civil war to enslave the productive.
You are correct in that he ran on an advertising slogan. No one knows what it meant and the idea of undefined change when there was nothing much wrong with the basics of America, except the actions of some politicians, evokes well-founded anxiety in anyone with a brain.
Don’t forget that this is affecting the entire world. There is no one except ourselves to liberate us. The rest of the world blames us while demanding we help them and they celebrate the very political upheaval that is at the root of all the present problems. How nutty is that?