Mourning in America---Why we lost.

It's really quite simple. I get it. It had nothing to do with Mitt Romney. He ran a very disciplined and focused campaign. Far superior in resources, focus,organization, and discipline than John McCain's. None of the Republicans running this year could have defeated Obama. The reasons are clear and obvious to me:

Barack Obama is implementing here in the US the very same policies Hugo Chavez has successfully implemented in Venezuela: Take over key industries. Get the majority of the population dependent on entitlements and government support programs to secure their votes. Raise taxes and redistribute wealth away from the dwindling productive classes. Ignore our colossal debt.

This has been going on for centuries. In ancient Rome politicians in the Republic and later the emperors bought off or subsidized the urban, often shiftless and unemployed urban masses with free food and entertainment and public spectacles. This was done through government largesse and increased taxes on the decreasing productive members of the society.

The problem is no one really cares---not even with spectacle of Europe collapsing under monstrous debt levels and unsustainable entitlement programs. With $16 trillion in debt, one could plausibly argue that the US is already effectively bankrupt---we have more debt than all of the EU countries combined.

The other problem is NO SENSE OF URGENCY about any of this. Looking at the overall vote totals, 14 million fewer voters particpated in the election than four years ago. John McCain actually received more votes than Mitt Romney.

Democracy really cannot work, Our founding fathers set up a limited government constitutional republic, not an unlimited government mass democracy. Our founders feared mob rule and for good reason. They knew the masses would eventually vote for themselves more benefits at the expense of others. That is why they set up the Electoral College and required voters in federal elections to be property owners. A very wise idea in retrospect.

The situation is made worse by our dysfunctional public education syatem. Where young minds are inculcated at very young age by neo-Marxist teachers unions and later radical university professors where they are taught far more about Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez and social justice than they are taught about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin. If our young people were properly instructed, they would know that the entire purpose of the Constitution was to limit the power, size, and scope of the Federal Government, and leave most powers to state and local governments while at the same time protecting inndividual liberty and private property rights.

Our pathetic pop culture, depraved Hollyweird celebrities, not to mention a professional news media nearly 90% in the tank for the Democrat Party in every election simply hasten our plunge into the abyss.

The answer, if you have the stomach for it, is this: beat them at their own game, using their tactics which as you can see, work.

My thinking exactly. But we may have to step back a bit further than Candy-a$$ Cow-ley. Like the Alinsky-ites, or the Islamists, come to think about it, this is not a new phenomenon. The underpinnings of this takeover go back to the 60s and 70s when the Bill Ayres and Bernadette Dohrns of the world began to infiltrate the American education system with their philosophy of "bring it all down, man".

I can still remember the protest marches in my hometown as a teenager, "merely" protesting the Vietnam War. Looking back, it was planting the seeds of discontent with those in college or about to enter college. The war was a convenient distraction, and begat a generation of professional students who spent many years in Academia avoiding the draft. Then, since they had "degrees" in disciplines for which there was no useful profession (Philosophy, Literature, clap trap like that), they graduated from students to teachers of the next generation.

Others, like myself, got our degrees in the more "traditional" disciplines like engineering, math, sciences, etc. and went out into the real world of business to earn our livelihood. Married, had children, then we get whammied by high taxes, changing social mores, etc. to the point that Mom had to go out into the business world as well to help support the family. So, where my generation (mid-50s) came home from school to have Mom waiting to nurture us or take us to the "occasional" activity (religious school, Little League, basics), our kids either came home to an empty house, or were shuffled off to the great "Childcare" collective like bees to the hive. Even the few lucky enough to have Mom at home after school were herded into the SUV and off to one organized activity after another, staying busy until dinner time or later, all under the watchful eye of Hillary's "Village".

To wrap it up, then, we need to start now to undo the mess we're in. But I won't be surprised if I don't live to see things get back to something even APPROACHING normal. As I said, it took us 30-40 years to get to this point. Anyone here that thinks we can turn it around in one or even four or five election cycles is either fooling themselves or just a cockeyed optimist.

Let's pray that this country has the resiliency to hold on through the next 5-10 years or more of everything our forefathers feared.

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