The fiscal cliff is still looming. Barack Obama will still occupy the White House for the next four years. The Democrats still control the Senate and the Republicans have the House. The unsustainable entitlement state is growing and there’s no hope of it shrinking any time soon. It’s pretty bleak. But it’s not forever.
There is no permanence in politics. All is fleeting. All is cyclical. We find comfort in our cycle and distress when others rise to the top.
Right now, conservatives are bitterly disappointed. Some choose to check out mentally. Some have decided to throw in the towel. A few blame the American people. Many think the gig is up, the show is over, and destiny is undone.
Demography is not destiny and neither is the ever growing leviathan. Many think so now, but they forget the ebbs and flows of the tide of history. Conservatism is not done. The message of freedom and opportunity is not done.
No immigrant comes to the United States wanting to be on welfare. They come for a better life of hard work and success. What conservatives forget is that people forget.
And conservatives have done a terrible job reminding people.
I don’t know. I still feel pretty crappy.
H/T to Smitty
Update: Sorry. I was just looking for something positive this morning. Bad idea on my part. Thanks for weighing in. In fairness, not all immigrants come here to get on the dole. Then again, many immigrants who come here to work hard end up being denied citizenship and sent packing.
“No immigrant comes to the United States wanting to be on welfare.”
This is addle-headed nonsense. No immigrant? Really? Never been a fan of Erickson. This doesn’t help.
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Ditto, Erik. Plenty of them come to the U.S. for precisely that.
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I don’t feel any better.
Some illegals come here to blow us up, whether on welfare or not.
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Thanks for the post and try, LC; but for me, 4 more years of this is utter devastation and there is no way for me to feel better. The side effect of the Liberal win is the smug, vicious attitudes of he Libtards who voted for him– including bosses, who do have power over you. Dicey moments yesterday. I’m still employed, but only barely and there’s still today and tomorrow to survive without telling someone to go piss up a rope. I need the job,+he knows that= awful reality.
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Instead of giving up, I’m heading a NYC NJ CT storm victim relief project in my area. I’m also slowy coming around to realize that I cannot abandon my conservative activism groups. I will stay engaged with holding these politicians’ feet to the fire. Just did some research on http://www.govtrack.us this morning and sent an email letter to my newly re-elected Democrat entrenched U.S. Rep. And, I’ll keep on doing that. It’s the best I have to offer.
An American gets up, dusts themselves off, and plows right back into the job – we cannot quit.
Rita Conrad
Pomfret Center, CT
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I disagree. The consequences, especially of this election, ARE forever. The rules and laws created by the Democrat Marxists will be permanent. Once the healthcare regulations get in place, there is NO way to undo them. The people who have been voting for the people who put these laws in place are, like it or not, the ones with all the power.
I have no hope. In fact, when people ask me, I am telling them I am a resident alien. The country in which I was born no longer exists.
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Islamic surpemacist immigrants come here EXPLICITLY to get on the dole.
I’m not as demoralized feeling as some of my friends, but it has nothing to do with cyclical this or that, it’s because I cannot give in to despair because that would be surrender and I refuse to surrender to people who have declared themselves to be my enemy. F that. Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. I’ll fight to the bitter freakin’ end. There is no other option for me, and I happen to like to fight, so screw it, might as well smile and keep going, because leftists want to see us wailing and gnashing our teeth, and the last thing we should be doing is giving those hateful jackasses a damned thing that they want if we can avoid it.
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I’m still mad as hell, and I’m not going to sugar-coat it. Unlike Zilla, I don’t like to fight, BUT that can change. Go, Zilla!
Today I actually felt motivated enough to do the dishes and clean up the living room. That’s saying something compared to yesterday when I could barely talk or walk after the devastation of Tue. night. As far this Erickson guy, I guess he’s just trying to make himself and us feel better. Can’t blame him for trying. But he doesn’t make sense.
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