I heard from a reader with good intentions telling me that my blog has been depressing the last few days. If I’ve been depressing to the rest of you, sorry. It’s been a depressing week. I posted something I thought sounded somewhat optimistic and the feedback was not the least bit positive. So I can’t win.
The only money this blog makes comes from the ads you see on the site, and I don’t even want to do the math to figure out what a pitiful hourly rate of pay it comes down to. Financially, I’d probably be better off flipping burgers at McDonald’s. I know for a fact I would make more money if I just quit blogging altogether and increased my hours at my day job. But that’s not why I do this.
I’m not a psychologist or a psychiatrist so don’t look to me to make you feel better after a truly horrible experience. And that’s what happened this week. The reelection of Barack Obama was a truly horrible experience. Blame it on whoever you want. I’m sure there’s plenty of blame to go around. We’re being told that if only we cave on immigration we’ll win elections, even though doing so is sure to increase the number of statist voters who will vote for a bigger government.
Racism and sexism is now the new normal when it comes to whites, and white men men in particular. As a white mother of two white boys who is married to a white man I find that to be unacceptable. But hardly anybody on either side of the aisle has a problem with it. Hating white people is now politically correct. Even some in our own party say the only way we will win the next presidential election is to elect someone who is black, or Hispanic, or some other “minority” that would be acceptable to the people who hate heterosexual whites. How is that not depressing? I’m not saying I wouldn’t support any of the above if the right candidate with the right qualifications* came along. But why should we whittle down our choices based on gender, ethnicity or sexual preference instead of experience and the ability to articulate a clear message? Based on those standards even Ronald Reagan wouldn’t stand a chance.
Oh, and if communists celebrating the culmination of 70 years of work they put into transforming this country isn’t depressing, I don’t know what is.
To those of you who sat this one out on principle all I have to say is thanks for nothing. By doing so you chose evil over imperfect. I hate to break it to you, but every one of us is imperfect. You’re as bad as the commies looking for utopia.
*I happen to like Senator Marco Rubio, but not because he’s considered to be someone who would help win over the Latino vote. I like that he recognizes that the United States was the last best hope on earth because his family came here to escape communism. I also like his ability to articulate a conservative message that to me should appeal to all Americans. But Alex Jones has been out there trying to destroy him so I’m sure there are some on “our side” who will vehemently oppose him. And then, again, we’ll all be tarred as racists. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I, for one, enjoy your blogs, LC. Every single one of them. You sure didn’t make me depressed. I was already sobbing my eyes out for 2 entire days and nights following the results Tuesday evening. I made myself depressed, but you didn’t. Some people get over a devastating shock like this, faster than others. Those of us who are having a harder time with it will eventually bounce back….but the grieving process (and this IS a grieving process) is different for everyone. I’m sorry if some people were insensitive and unsupportive of your post. We can’t please everybody! Just focus on the comments that reinforce what you write. Keep up the good work!
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I love you, Jan!
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Jan, you and I we’re thinking and writing at the same point in time!
I love this article L.C. You’ve captured the essence of how many of us are feeling this week. We all know the grieving process can be very painful and has several stages: shock, denial, anger, guilt, sadness, acceptance and growth. This process is undeniably associated with loved ones that we’ve lost. But in this instance it is our beloved country we mourn. No two individuals have a similar emotional reaction, degree of pain or length of healing time when experiencing such a loss. The key to survival is having a support system in place to get one through the toughest time. That time period usually depends on the degree of love and the closeness of the relationship one had for the deceased.
We will get through this darkness, and we will have our day in the Sun. You know that better than anyone—you’re a warrior!
My feelings on the “Depressing” issue:
The Lonely Conservative does great service for those of us who hunger for the truth, and she does it interminably and masterfully. Her writing is exceptionally informative, timely and wonderfully entertaining to boot. L.C.’s contextual styling is poetic. She can speak volumes in economical sentences. Her silver tongued analysis shine through and is always right on target. What the hell more do you want!
So, I would suggest that at such a crucial time in our history we support one another, especially L.C., wholeheartedly. Let us grieve in our own way, in our own time. Some days will be harder to bear than others, but let’s not revert to shooting the messenger, OK?
Just in case there are those of you who feel reading this wonderful and dedicated conservative woman’s blog is too depressing for you…there’s always the Daily Kos, or The Politico, or Talking Points Memo, Democratic Underground, etc., etc., etc.
Reading that crap will make you so depressed that you’ll be reaching for your pistol!
Love you L.C.
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This election woke me up. I could understand those voting for Obama the first time, but after four years of his policies he still won. Like O’Reilly said, traditional America is dead. Obama criticized Romney in one of the debates by saying Romney had the economic policy of the twenties, the social policy of the fifties, ande defense policy of the twenties. I thought that sounded incredible, but the people voted against it. I have a hard time thinking of this country as America anymore. At least I no longer think we have an American government. If the culture that created the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution based on Locke and the Magna Carta is suddenly a minority, then we are no longer have the same country. Instead we have the shell of American institutions occupied by people for whom American values are totally alien. Call that racist, but I’m already a conservative. My biggest fear is that Obama or some future Democratic president declares amnesty. Obamacare passed and the left obviously doesn’t care at all about closing the borders. Boehner’s already caving on the issue. If that happens then the sudden flood of illegals will turn states likes Texas and Arizona with all their electoral votes into Blue states and we’ll have a one party system. They may keep democratic voting as a facade or they may just find an excuse to have a formal dictator, but it won’t matter either way. At that point, only a civil war could do anything, but if it will happen let alone be successful I just don’t know.
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Thank you, Karen, for just saying it like it is.
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I’m a long time reader. You haven’t been overly depressing. You’re calling it like you see it. I am depressed too. We live in California. How’s that for depressing. The democrats just got a super majority in our legislature, our taxes are going up, and my husband is worried about our guns being banned. This is a depressing week. It doesn’t mean there is some hope but I’m not feeling it yet either. This week has been extremely upsetting to me. Tears have been shed.
Keep doing what you do. Your blog is fantastic and we need it.
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Hey, it was a depressing week. Fortunately, Obama is “committed to fixing our fiscal problems”….yeah, I laughed at that, too. I’d rather he just be committed.
I’d like to say it will get better, but, we’ll soon be exactly where Greece is.
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I would like to offer a few notes of hope here:
The wonderful thing about America is that with just a couple of violent exceptions (the 1860s and the 1960s), Americans of widely divergent points of view on economics and sociology have lived side by side and worked together.
America has seen huge changes before: The end of slavery. Women suffrage. The beginning and end of the Cold War. Each time, the handwringers said “Oh, dear, what is this country coming to?” But they were wrong every time.
In this election, blacks, Hispanics and Asians made up 27% of the voters, the largest such share in U.S. history. Good for them! They’ve come a long way since Bull Connor and Cesar Chavez.
We have a challenge: Making the conservative message of freedom sound exciting to those Americans who are not Straight White Christians. We’ve met such a challenge before:
Starting in the 1960s, the GOP shed its old-style White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) snooty country-club disdain for working people, and learned how to appeal to the urban ethic working class. They didn’t want to do it. But the shellacking the GOP took in the 1964 election convinced them that something had to change.
The GOP can reinvent itself and become a stronger party once again. But to do so, it has to avoid defeatism; and it has to stand up to those interests who like the GOP just the way it is.
So instead of handwringing and defeatism, we should start thinking about what a set of modernized conservative policies would look like. We could start with what Ann Coulter wrote this week after the election:
“No law is going to force a rape victim to bear her rapist’s child.”
That should be in the 2016 GOP Platform.
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Some excellent points, sinz. The only problem is that our platform is rather boring, because it is based on people who want free stuff paid for by someone else getting less free stuff. It is a platform based on fiscal responsibility and saving our country from bankruptcy, rather than immediate gratification.
But, you’re right, we have to avoid defeatism. And, we can. Liberals were miserable post-2004 elections, completely eating themselves and going moonbat force 11.
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LC, if you were depressing, I wouldn’t keep coming back to your site. I think you have been realistic in the face of a lousy week. Don’t you get depressed by the nattering nabobs of negativity (myself included).
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I haven’t heard “nattering nabobs of negativity” in a while. Heh.
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Alex Jones can kiss my butt. He’s crazy and so are his fans. Just because a broken clock is right twice a day doesn’t mean that Alex Jones isn’t nucking futz.
Anyway, I love you and I love what you do here. You don’t need to be a cheerleader, just be yourself. There are others who can do the silver lining stuff, you do great at bringing us the news that the media won’t.
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@Zilla – Ditto! Great comment! Couldn’t agree more with your Alex Jones take. He’s the animated version of the liberal’s true feelings toward conservatives. He makes it easy, and righteous, to refer to him as a SCOAMF’S BOOTLICKER! or any other kind of “licker” prefix you prefer.
Regarding L.C., Major Dittos! She writes with honesty and integrity, qualities the MSM abandoned long ago.
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