[This is taken from Thoughts I Thunk, a compilation of some of my own personal reflections. The date of the writing is included as it is sometimes relevant to understand what was said and why.]
The following was written and posted on Facebook the day after the national election in 2010 which resulted in a Republican landslide:
I have to speak to this Republican wave that swept over us yesterday. In 1964, following Goldwater, pundits said the Republican Party was doomed to die. It didn't. In 1980, following Reagan, it was announced the Democratic Party would die. It didn't. Following W's ascendancy, the Democratic Party's obituary was again being written. In 2006 and 2008 the Republican Party’s epitaph was being written. Again, none of this happened. Each was little more than a bump in the road.
It is what it is. Living in a state that has turned from Democratic to Republican in the last few years, I can tell you it is not the end of the world. It’s still a good place to live. Of course, we are 49th in per capita income, 49th in education, 49th in health and health care, 49th in teacher pay. (Thank God for Mississippi.) And we rank right up there toward the top in teenage pregnancies, methamphetamine production and use, imprisonment, health problems, divorce, child abuse, spouse abuse and a host of other dubious standings.
It is still basically a good place to live. It’s even a good place to visit. So come on by.
I predict there will be gridlock as bad or worse than anything we have ever seen in Washington. There won’t be any progressive action and the sole goal will be to stamp out Obama and the rest of the Democrats as soon as possible. There are surely consequences to elections. We’ll live with this landslide until another one comes along.
It is what it is.
The following was written and posted on Facebook the day after the national election in 2010 which resulted in a Republican landslide:
I have to speak to this Republican wave that swept over us yesterday. In 1964, following Goldwater, pundits said the Republican Party was doomed to die. It didn't. In 1980, following Reagan, it was announced the Democratic Party would die. It didn't. Following W's ascendancy, the Democratic Party's obituary was again being written. In 2006 and 2008 the Republican Party’s epitaph was being written. Again, none of this happened. Each was little more than a bump in the road.
It is what it is. Living in a state that has turned from Democratic to Republican in the last few years, I can tell you it is not the end of the world. It’s still a good place to live. Of course, we are 49th in per capita income, 49th in education, 49th in health and health care, 49th in teacher pay. (Thank God for Mississippi.) And we rank right up there toward the top in teenage pregnancies, methamphetamine production and use, imprisonment, health problems, divorce, child abuse, spouse abuse and a host of other dubious standings.
It is still basically a good place to live. It’s even a good place to visit. So come on by.
I predict there will be gridlock as bad or worse than anything we have ever seen in Washington. There won’t be any progressive action and the sole goal will be to stamp out Obama and the rest of the Democrats as soon as possible. There are surely consequences to elections. We’ll live with this landslide until another one comes along.
It is what it is.
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