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One DUmmie comes to grips with reality

Posted on 11/04/2004 9:46:58 AM PST by youngrepublican1986

I woke up today feeling much better than yesterday, much more at peace with all this. Have I acceded to the calls for "national unity"? Have I tasted of the Kool-Aid and found it sweet?

Hardly.

I simply came to a startling conclusion somewhere last night as I drifted off to sleep. We were told this was an referendum on the President. Wrong. This was a referendum on the American people, and they made their choice. You've all seen, by now, the polling results that show "moral values" as the overwhelming sentiment in the choice for Bush.

So what does that tell me? It tells me that, when you come right down to it, this country is simply not in my corner. And the past generation bears that out.

Let's be brutally honest here: we (liberals, Democrats, whatever) haven't won an election by majority since 1976 and Jimmy Carter. Clinton never had a majority, only a plurality. Frankly, I don't think Carter would have won if he hadn't been running against the spectre of Nixon. So this means that in the past 36 years, we have legitimately carried the majority sentiment one time out of ten. One time out of ten.

That should come as a hard slap. Thiry-six years. One election out of ten.

It's time to wake up and smell the political coffee: WE ARE OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM. The 'Pubs have been telling us this for years and we constantly scoffed and said they were wrong. But it turns out they were right: they weren't trying to job us with political rhetoric, they were trying to help us understand what was happening.

Now, you may steel yourself by saying "Well, we got 50+ million people to vote on our side". But step back from that for a moment. That 50+ million was marshalled in an unprecedented "Get Out The Vote" effort. Millions of doors were knocked on, millions of calls made, millions of dollars spent. A massive effort, a political D-Day as it were - an all or nothing gambit designed to capture the beach and sweep into Washington, putting Conservatives on the run.

And we still got beat, and beat bad. We didn't just see a referendum at the Presidential level this week. We saw it right down to the roots, with the sweeping losses in both parts of Congress, as well as the unanimous adoption of "Defense of Marriage" acts. Put simply, we're not the majority here, not now, not for the past generation or more. Our views are not those of the country - regardless of the yardstick you use. Even those seats we did gain tended toward the moderate end of the Democratic spectrum. And we lost to clear loons like Coburn and Bunning.

How does all this put me a peace? Well, I keep coming back to that "36 years" figure. That's the entire span of my life, plus a few years. This means that for the duration of my existence on this sphere, I have been on the outside looking in, with the tide steadily rising against me.

The mainstream of this country does not support equality for all, secularism, public assistance, environmentalism, etc. Nor do they abhor the things I do. I do not represent this country. It isn't mine, and never was. Perhaps that's a defeatist attitude, but I find it hard to fight for something that firstly isn’t mine to start with and secondly that has no intersection with my personal values.

And that's when peace and acceptance washed over me. There is nothing here for me to fight for because the country I thought I lived in has utterly and completely, at virtually every conceivable turn, rejected my beliefs wholesale.

I would imagine it's the same sense of acceptance a "guest worker" feels. I'm in this country mainly for a job. If I had the wherewithal to go someplace else, I probably would.

I am stranger in this land, and frankly I don't, any longer, hold its tenets close to my heart. I mean here not the tenets of the foundations of this country - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights - but the tenets of the electorate. Because in the end, the electorate makes, remakes, is remaking, the country in its own image. All countries are portraits of their people. The portrait of America for the past three decades or more has basically looked the same. And I have never been in that portrait.

I am free and at peace now with America, because I am absolved of responsibility for it. As it has shut my voice out, I now can shut it out. Its failures and missteps, its foibles and stupidity, none are now my own.

Now peace, as I cut America out of my heart, as America had already cut me out of its.

Finally they recognize that they are out of the mainstream! What a thought!


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1 posted on 11/04/2004 9:46:58 AM PST by youngrepublican1986
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To: youngrepublican1986
Bah. I'm sure that was done by a FReeper troll.

(nicely done too!)

2 posted on 11/04/2004 9:49:37 AM PST by The G Man (Are Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein better off now then they were 4 years ago?)
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To: youngrepublican1986

Incredibly slow learners aren't they, I mean it only took this one 36 years?


3 posted on 11/04/2004 9:49:50 AM PST by michaelbfree
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To: youngrepublican1986
This person terrifies me . . . because, at one level, he gets it. If all of them "got it," they might have a credible party.

At another level, though, it should be obvious that NO PARTY that hates guns, normalizes homosexuality, breeds on appeasement and pacifism, can EVER be a true "national" party.

Zell, come to our party!

4 posted on 11/04/2004 9:50:08 AM PST by LS
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To: youngrepublican1986

He came too close to making sense. He'll be banned immediately.


5 posted on 11/04/2004 9:50:28 AM PST by Dan Middleton (Hang on sloopy / Sloopy hang on / Hang on sloopy / Sloopy hang on / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...)
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To: youngrepublican1986

"D-Day as it were - an all or nothing gambit designed to capture the beach and sweep into Washington, putting Conservatives on the run."


HEY! Thats mine, I was the one who called for storming the polling places like they were the beaches of Normandy.


6 posted on 11/04/2004 9:50:51 AM PST by cripplecreek (We've turned the corner and we're not smokin crack.)
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To: youngrepublican1986

Brilliant deduction, dear writer. While you're cutting, cut your citizenship papers and move to France.


7 posted on 11/04/2004 9:51:35 AM PST by SpinnerWebb
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To: youngrepublican1986
The mainstream of this country does not support equality for all, secularism, public assistance, environmentalism, etc. Nor do they abhor the things I do. I do not represent this country. It isn't mine, and never was. Perhaps that's a defeatist attitude, but I find it hard to fight for something that firstly isn’t mine to start with and secondly that has no intersection with my personal values.

But places like Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam think like you. Go move there for a while.

I just have to laugh at "equality for all" - except for affirmative action, quotas, minority set asides, minority scholarships, diversity hiring programs, etc.

8 posted on 11/04/2004 9:52:00 AM PST by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: youngrepublican1986
No fool, the country does not adapt to you. You fool, YOU adapt to IT. If you don't like it here, there are plenty of homosexual, environmental, peace loving, socialist/communist led countries you can easily move to. But, then you might not get to open your socialist mouth there as you can here. Loser. YOU LOST! Live with it. OR BETTER YET, CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9 posted on 11/04/2004 9:52:28 AM PST by RetiredArmy (WE DEFEATED THE COMMUNIST KERRY! We Vietnam Veterans ARE Vindicated. We have our revenge!)
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To: youngrepublican1986
It's time to wake up and smell the political coffee: WE ARE OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM. The 'Pubs have been telling us this for years and we constantly scoffed and said they were wrong. But it turns out they were right: they weren't trying to job us with political rhetoric, they were trying to help us understand what was happening.

In other words, they were simply stating facts and we didn't believe them for DECADES.

10 posted on 11/04/2004 9:52:59 AM PST by coloradan (Hence, etc.)
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The mainstream of this country does not support equality for all...
Tell Condi Rice that. Tell the increase in Black and Hispanic voters who went for Bush that. Tell the thousands who still flock to America that. See what you get as a response...

I find it hard to fight for something that firstly isn’t mine to start with and secondly that has no intersection with my personal values.
I hear Kool-Aid can help you...

11 posted on 11/04/2004 9:53:01 AM PST by akorahil (MSM is RIP)
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To: youngrepublican1986

I feel a sense of peace, too, but in the universal way. As if the air has been let out of the Left. As that post mentions, MILLIONS of dollars, calls, doors, people went into BEATING BUSH, and they failed. Must be a bitter pill, but I think we may have some calm now. Maybe these calls for "unity" might actually come to pass, as the more intelligent (I know, hard to find) Lefties will realize that all the moaning and whining and name-calling in the world won't undo Nov. 2, nor will it ensure NEXT Nov. 2. I think they learned their lesson. Now it's time to move on.


12 posted on 11/04/2004 9:53:56 AM PST by jcb8199
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To: youngrepublican1986

I hope that person is being honest and serious, albeit deluded.

If he truly believes this...GOOD! Now get out of the way (or join us), and let the forces of freedom and morality advance unhindered by your selfish pathological ideology.


13 posted on 11/04/2004 9:54:01 AM PST by Dr. Free Market (Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.)
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To: youngrepublican1986

Well, it looks like I'm going to be donating my screename for their cause. If anyone is a Small Voice in the Wilderness, it's this person. Of course, he may not exist any longer. Reality is not an option at DU.


14 posted on 11/04/2004 9:54:04 AM PST by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: youngrepublican1986

>>The mainstream of this country does not support equality for all..

That's a crock. We support "All men are equal under the law", but we do not support "All men are equal by law". A man is what he makes of himself.


15 posted on 11/04/2004 9:54:06 AM PST by MarineBrat
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To: youngrepublican1986
It would be interesting if a real Democrat wrote this. If it is then this guy was drinking truth serum. This guy hit it right on target and hopefully many of the Dems will have this defeatist attitude but I am not holding my breath.

The Dems will get even crazier and more radical. They will not admit their mistakes and they will continue to lie, attack, cheat and do whatever it takes to win elections. They think it is their right.

We have to continue to "fight the good fight", pray and do the right thing. If we continue to do this the Dems will continue to be defeated. If the Republicans end of going the moderate route just to try to get approval from MSM and the world, the Republicans will start to lose elections ( see (FLASHBACK) Secrets of the "Reagan Democrats”--DEJA VU 2004 ).

16 posted on 11/04/2004 9:54:26 AM PST by truthandlife (http://www.neverforgetneveragain.com -- If you want Bush re-elected pass on this video link!!!!)
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To: youngrepublican1986
I would imagine it's the same sense of acceptance a "guest worker" feels. I'm in this country mainly for a job. If I had the wherewithal to go someplace else, I probably would.

Maybe we could all donate a dollar for his plane ticket to France or Sweden.

17 posted on 11/04/2004 9:54:33 AM PST by Hugin
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To: cripplecreek
I agree with the notion that this gets it on one level. The 36 year bit. The part that annoys me is the sense of resignation of participation in the Republic and society. During Carter and Clinton I felt distanced from the MSM view of what America was, but I still participated.

What this 'crat seems to be saying is, "I now get it. I don't fit and I'm absolved for civic and personal responsibility because I'm not who this country is". Pretty silly when you think about it.

Ciao
18 posted on 11/04/2004 9:54:45 AM PST by MB6.3
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To: youngrepublican1986

The writer says "The portrait of America for the past three decades or more has basically looked the same. And I have never been in that portrait."

Well, he's getting close to understanding the truth. But he needs to realize it's not just the last three decades....but the last twenty decades! He's out of touch with America because he's never understood what Americas was built on!


19 posted on 11/04/2004 9:55:19 AM PST by Stabnoise
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To: youngrepublican1986

The Karl Rove ground-game vs. the 527/George Soros effort.

No contest.


20 posted on 11/04/2004 9:55:45 AM PST by gipper81
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