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Amy Proctor's Post-Election Message to Americans
THOUGHTS ON THE TRAGIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
by Amy Proctor November 7th, 2012
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Mark Levin from his book 'Ameritopia' - "No society is guaranteed
perpetual existence. But I have to believe that the American people are
not ready for servitude, for if this is our destiny, and the destiny of
our children, I cannot conceive that any people, now or in the future,
will successfully resist it for long. I have to believe that this
generation of Americans will not condemn future generations to centuries
of misery and darkness."
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There’s no other way to describe Barack Obama’s victory over Mitt
Romney but to call it devastating. We are now a divided republic as
Americans voted 50% to almost 49% for Obama. After the most vitriolic
election season of my lifetime, many good, patriotic, struggling
Americans are left this morning asking themselves, “Why? How could this
happen? Why would my fellow Americans do this to me and my children?”
The message is clear: we’ve entered a new era in American history.
We’ve turned the page on decorum and decency to vulgarity and
patheticness. Where we used to require our candidates, let alone our
presidents, to be statesmen, we’re now satisfied with them being
tactless thugs who relate more to Hollywood elitists than the average
working American. We’ve settled for a sitting president that calls his
opponent a “buttshitter” and worse, who campaigned from the pages of
Rolling Stone and The View as the sitting First Lady campaigned from
iVillage talking about “50 Shades of Gray.”
Barack Obama had a
winning strategy; that is, to throw all his eggs in the stupid basket.
His appeal to the unlearned, unchurched, unsophisticated morons who most
probably couldn’t tell you how many states or branches of government
are, paid off in a big way. Once unthinkable tactics that even the most
unscrupulous candidates wouldn’t dare attempt were used front and center
as an appealing sound byte to lure the stupid from their caves. Big
Bird, free condoms, free healthcare, Romnesia and other absurdities were
touted as reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney. And those with IQs
around 45 bought it hook, line and sinker.
And then there are
the lies. Lies, lies and more lies. Barack Obama and Joe Biden lied
about everything they could… job creation, dead Americans in Benghazi,
Iraq, oil creation, defunding Big Bird, why they were just so incapable
of fixing the economy…. These were easy lies to discredit. Easy. But in
debates watched by tens of millions of Americans, lie, lie, lie they did
because they knew damn well the ignorant voters would never fact check
because it’s just so hard to be informed.
What’s really
disturbing is how Barack Obama pathologically lied while being the
father of two daughters. There’s something sick about a father who so
blatantly lies about his record and his opponent while posing as a good
family man. I guess absolute power is more important to some people than
absolute character.
In the end, bullying won. Barack Obama let
his surrogates carry out an assault on the character of two of the most
decent men in America; Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. And those surrogates
perpetuated the message that any woman who’d vote for Mitt Romney is a
misogynistic *#$%*!, that Mitt Romney killed a woman with cancer, that
Mitt Romney wanted to send blacks into slavery, and that Romney is an
(insert favorite obscenity here). Obama maintained a level of juvenile,
arrogant and condescending discourse that was an embarrassment to the
office of the Presidency. And this, too, like $3.50 a gallon gas, high
grocery and energy prices, and even higher unemployment, is the new
normal.
Many of us watched the returns last night in horror.
Why would New York and New Jersey vote for a man who promised to help
their states after hurricane Sandy while so many are still suffering
from its effects? Where is FEMA? Where is the water, food, heat and
other aide promised to them last week? But really, who gives a crap? So
don’t cry for me, NY and NJ. You fools get exactly what you deserve as
you flounder in the freezing cold without food and water.
And
how could Pennsylvania, which as seen more than a dozen coal plants
close because of Obama’s war on coal, elect Obama? When your
unemployment reaches 20%, don’t cry on my shoulder, PA. You did this to
yourself. And thanks for doing it to the rest of us, too.
One
of the most bizarre victories was in Massachusetts. Democrat Elizabeth
Warren defeated Senator R-Scott Brown, who was elected to take the seat
of Ted Kennedy after his death. His election was a message to the
president to not pass Obamacare. And now, the citizens of MA voted for a
lying white woman who’s been disgraced by her ludicrous claim that
she’s a Cherokee Native American so she could receive special treatment
from Harvard? Look at her! She’s white! She’s not a Native American! But
then, Massachusetts, you are stupid, so the fact that she was elected
doesn’t even make me sad. It makes me LOL. Literally.
Condolences go out particularly to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, who must be crying himself to sleep tonight. Israel has lost
its best ally and Iran is taking notice. God help Israel.
Congratulations go out to all those Ron Paul voters who stood by their
“principles”, such as they are, that there is no difference between
Obama and Romney, so they decided to spend election day smoking pot
rather than voting to save the Republic. Good move, Paulbots. May you
all move to Colorado and Washington state.
What now? The next
four years will be even more divisive than the last. Who will Obama
blame for the mess he inherited this time? And does it really matter
anymore anyway? The end of our great nation as we know it is secure. The
republic as we knew it is moving “forward”, off the cliff into the
abyss for good. There is no turning back. Obamacare will not be repealed
and socialized medicine will replace private medical care in America.
Except for elitists like presidents, senators and congressmen, that is.
They will continue to enjoy their “Cadillac insurance plans” while the
rest of us eat cake. The Supreme Court will be stacked with at least 2
more justices in the next 4 years. Obama will continue to rule like Hugo
Chavez and Fidel Castro, who by the way endorsed Obama for president.
The economy will hit rock bottom. The debt will continue to climb and
the dollar will eventually fail, sooner rather than later.
But I
will not be discouraged for long. I will remember the words of Ronald
Reagan who said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It
must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” I
will remember that we did our damnedest and that’s all we can really
do. This is America, after all, and her weakness is the same as her
strength: liberty. What makes liberty vulnerable are the ignorant masses
with a voting card, and they are beginning to out number the rest of
us. So settle I will. I will remember fondly the good men named Mitt
Romney and Paul Ryan and how they valiantly tried to save this nation
through character, dignity and a feasible plan and remember that it
wasn’t their fault the election turned out this way, it is the fault of
the American voter. And I will turn my eyes away from politics, away
from nationalism, and turn to God alone, since my own citizenry betrayed
us. I can comfort myself with the solace that the next generation will
not miss what it never knew and know that this new normal America has
settled for will hurt mainly those who deserve it. The rest of us
thinking, feeling, patriotic Americans will make due and find our own
success in our own ways because we are, after all, still Americans,
while that still means something.
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Amy is the former Bottom Line Up Front author who is now an award-winning photographer and world traveler who has settled with her children in the States. Her husband, Johnny, is a Master Sergeant currently serving in the US Army overseas, a talented musician and doubtless hoping to get back home soon. Keep your head down, Johnny, and come back home! They are a God-fearing wonderful family and may God bless them all! Her more-than-just-photography website is found here - Amy Proctor
IMAGO DEI PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG
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This blog author will not do a post-mortem examination of the carcass that is the 2012 election. I am attending the funeral and watching it go down into the ground. I understood that America could easily become a dystopian society if it ever became addicted to government. We held on to true liberty for so long I think we believed it could never be taken away. We became complacent and used to it to the point we believed we could do anything we like with it. We ignored responsibility, civility and honor. We devalued honesty and the Judeo-Christian morality that the Founders took for granted. They did not foresee the ending but I do think they wondered how long we could avoid the trap of government handouts over individual accomplishments. Much as did Rome, we have collapsed from the inside out. It is too painful to look any longer upon the corpse. So RIP the American Republic, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. You were the best!
The headstone reads: Here lies the Greatest Nation on Earth. The boldest experiment in Democracy ever attempted and one who lived a full and rich life. It cried, "Give me liberty or give me death." May it rest in peace.