Naive… Dumb…Stupid… Out of
touch… There are others things I could say about how I’m feeling about myself
but most are unfit to print.
Everything I had thought
about Romney as a candidate has been proven so. Everything I have thought about
the national and local Republican Party has once again been proven so. I set
aside common sense and simply went along once again.
In a strange way I have felt
some relief this morning. I turned on the news at four thirty this morning and
searched for the local weather report and not the latest political polls. Weather
has a direct impact on our day to day life on our little farm. My granddad
bought this place in 1921. I will be the third generation to live out my life
here.
There is a sense of safety
and beauty on our farm. When I decide to lock the front gate the world is right
where it should be - which is outside. Although we are dependent to some extent
on the outside basic food and shelter is here as it has been for almost a
hundred years for my family. Doctors won't make house calls but most other
needs are met through internet shopping. We seem to use it more and more along
with the weekly trip to Walmart and dinners out. Combined mileage for cars and truck was less
than fifteen thousand miles last year and will be less this year. Other than
paying local government rent in the form of taxes on the farm what goes on
outside has little direct impact on our daily lives.
My involvement in this
political campaign came about mostly because of the impact this president and
this federal government has and will have on our children and grandchildren.
Even though I know they will adapt and manage in this evolving socialist order,
I really didn't want them to have to do so. The grandchildren will grow up
under the new social norms and not know anything different.
This election has been
helpful in that it has shown us the dollar amount the political elites in both
national parties are willing to spend to protect their power. Most of the
elected that has taken the country down this road are still in elected office
and will continue to do what they have done while declaring, to all who will
listen, that they are not the ones who are changing the American meaning of
liberty and freedom.
By 2016 there will be so many
citizens dependent on various government social programs there will not be any
room for a conservative political voice. However, I am confident the GOP will find
a white, wealth, moderate, middle aged man to run for president. He will be a
nice man who will lose just like so many other milksop GOP selected candidates
in the past. My belief is that the Tea Party was the last vestige of
conservative America. (This election somehow reminds me of the Scopes trial.)
Citizens will be told that
American new socialism is different from all the other nations’ socialism in
that it will not betray its citizens. We were told this while we watched all
the nations in Europe financially collapse.
History repeats itself and so
do politicians in their quest for personal power. Socialism is one of the best
forms of government for them to hide behind.
I don't really feel bad for
the young men and particularly women who voted for Obama. As their lives evolve
their hopes of the middle class American way of life for them and their
children, a way of life many grew up in, is out of reach. They will not connect
the dots. They will not see the part they played nor take responsibility for
their part in this election drama.
The average citizen’s
attitude towards the Tea Party and its members tells a tale of effective
political and media campaigning. It is now thought of as a radical group of
dumb old folks who need to sit down and shut up. We are defined, along with a few elected GOP
members, as the people who interfere with social progress. That was our goal,
in some sense, so they are probably right.
As a group there are many
ways left to us to contribute to the future of the nation. We will still be able
to vote and so long as we are not threatening the politically elite we will be
tolerated. I don't know how much energy
or desire there is left within the Tea group but local town/county boards and
elected offices could be a focal point.
In my readings many of the
Tea Party web sites across the country it seems they are not what they were a
year or so ago. Lots of rabid articles
and rabid commenter’s on these sites. I'm sure also that many people who read what
I post on this The Oxford Tea Party web site see it as inappropriate also.
Certainly supporting Newt was seen as a poor idea. This is not an apology
because I knew him as a warrior and I believed this election was going to be a
war. No one could accuse Romney of being a warrior and we knew this about him
‘out the gate’. There is an adage that
simply states, nice guys finish last. Who we might accuse for coming in last is
the Republican Party at the national and local levels. The Party no longer
walks or talks the core principles of conservatism. Their quest has been for
power and the focus of their efforts has been to keep them in power. That is not a vision or a mission for liberty
and freedom. Try as they might the money and candidates could not sell their morphed
version of the Reagan ideals.
We fought a good fight in
this election. We lost. I don't want to recant American political history but
we have had a number of presidents who were loved because they believed that
America should become a socialist nation and worked towards that goal. FDR is
the icon. Obama is just one more in a
long chain. There a difference now in that we have allowed presidents more and
more power. Obama has and will use this power like none before him. He said to
congress if you don’t act I will and he has. America will not come to end but
he promised to change it and he will.
I want to thank each person in the Tea Party
for their individual efforts. This race is run.
The future will be a 'good time' for some and a ‘hard time’ for the
many. The dependent underclass on social programs is growing along with their
voting power. Their power will be used to grow the social programs. This is the
writing on the wall. Everyone will still get a piece of the new American pie
for a while. A much smaller piece for sure.
The bright side in all this
is, if there is one, is that financial crisis, such as we the one we are
facing, creates unique opportunities. We will just have to do lots of shoveling
to find the pony.
Three years and one hundred
and seventy three articles later The Oxford Tea Party web site is going to take
a vacation. Take a few steps back. Let
some time pass and begin to rethink the question of, “What’s next.” November 6,
2012 was just the end of the current election cycle and the next one is only
twenty four months down the road.
The countdown Election Day
clock on my computer’s home screen just informed me that the time to the
November 6th election has expired. The question the clock popped up asked,
"Do you want to reset?" (I had to smile at its question.) How do you
think I responded to my clock’s question?
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
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