At this point I (and many of my friends and co-workers) are asking themselves, "Why even bother?"
Yeah, I kind of have that same attitude myself. I have a feeling, though, that come election time I will do the right thing (vote against any and all leftists) because to do otherwise (say, sitting it out) would be unconscionable. I do have to live with myself, after all.
But, that said, I do not think that after this election I will ever have the same kind of enthusiasm for voting that I have had in the past. I have lost faith in the America that I once knew. It no longer exists and I am sad because of that. The country I grew up in and loved is, for the most part, dead. Dead and gone. And I mourn it. We were great once and now we are nothing more than another socialist cesspool. What we are now experiencing is the full flowering of postmodernism.
I suppose that it is possible that another conservative hero will rise up and inspire both conservatives and independents alike...another Reagan or Goldwater-like person, a leader and a visionary, someone we can all be truly excited about...but honestly, these types of people are rare. So...I won't be holding my breath for that to happen. Reagan and Goldwater were giants and the so-called Republican leaders who we are currently saddled with are mere pygmies by comparison who couldn't find their ass with both hands. Buckley was another one although he was more philosopher than leader...the soul of the movement rather than its embodiment.
These people, when they inexplicably emerge from seemingly nowhere, are a convergence of several different traits...true conservative believers, steadfast supporters of the Constitution and possessors of charismatic personalities...a perfect storm of qualities that allow them to lead and engender support from a wide range of the voting population. And the final key to the electability puzzle is perhaps the biggest hurdle of all: the voting public has to be ready for this person. The electorate has to be thoroughly sickened of the status quo and hungry for change.
Circumstances that make people desperate for "change" have led us to where we are now so that situation can just as easily give us a despot as a leader of free men.
Right now my hope quotient is at a low ebb. As I said above, I have no faith at all in the voting public now that they have, in essence, voted for the second term of Jimmy Carter. We are very probably in for a very, very long period of darkness in our country's history...if our country can even survive it. My personal belief is that our country is being judged, that God Himself has chosen this leader for our country to punish us for straying so far from the beliefs and principles upon which the country was founded. I believe that we will have to bottom out before we can be resurrected, that we will need to be thoroughly humiliated and humbled and then repent and seek revival. This has, like most things,
happened before and great things followed it. But we have to survive our present (and short term future) circumstances first. The jury is still out on whether we will or not and right now we (collectively speaking) are most definitely on the wrong path and don't even realize it.
