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I used to throw my head at the wall every election, living and dying like it was a football game. Now I live my life.

After being disappointed by the Bush Administration and disheartened by the election of Obama, I looked in the mirror and thought that for the first time in my adult life, I just don't really care about politics anymore. At 41-years old with a wife and a young child to raise, I've made the decision that my personal happiness and well-being will no longer be governed by whomever sits in Washington. It has really been quite liberating.

I will do my best to raise my child (and future children) and instill the values I believe will make them successful, happy and productive members of society. And accomplishing this will no longer be dependent upon who sits in the White House.

Bashing my head against the wall every time my guy loses (or wins only to disappoint me) is giving these idiots in Washington too much power over my life --power they didn't earn and don't deserve.

Bush, Obama, I don't care anymore. My duties to my wife, my children and to myself are my responsibilities, not theirs. I am my own captain.

By your own admission, you have chosen to stand down, and are no longer in the fight. That's your choice, but it also explains your dour outlook on America's future.

Please understand that your gloomy prognostications here affect the minds of others, who might not lay down their arms, but for the disheartening influence of your defeatist statements.

If you've lost all hope, please do us a favor and keep it to yourself. Enthusiasm, as well as defeatism, are contagious.

I just don’t really care about politics anymore.

Which is exactly what they want you to do. The folks down in Bell,CA didn’t care about politics either. They wound up paying over a million dollars a year to their city manager in pay and benefits and almost as much to their police chief. Once we take our eye off the ball, the ruling class can then steal the whole ballpark.

Maybe politics can drive you crazy, but we must make a basic decision without getting into the minutia of everyday events. Do we want a massive government controlled by a ruling class regulating every aspect of our lives or don’t we? No one politician is going to please you 100% of the time and we shouldn’t try to make them into saints. The choice is more basic than that and this year it’s plainly on the table, big government and big spending or not.

The “Not” isn’t going to be easy, because government is like a ball that is rolling and gaining momentum as it travels. We will need to give it some time to bring the ball to a stop. It may take several elections and we’ll need every good soul to help.

“It’s not the naysayers, or the threats of gloom and doom, that make men rise to greatness. No it is singularly hope springing eternally from the heart of man that drives him to accomplish that which otherwise should not be.”

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