So what really happened last Tuesday? Why did just more than half of the country decide to elect a hard-left socialist as it’s president, a gaffe-prone comedian as vice president, and a dysfunctional Congress filled with nut jobs and borderline Communists? In short, because of selfishness. My neighbors voted for Obama and the Democrats because of what they perceive they will get. They perceive that Obama will “take from the rich” and give it to them. Almost half of the country is now on welfare and they have the right to vote (which in my opinion should be illegal–you’re on the dole, you can’t vote to stay on the dole). So they voted to redefine what is immoral, unethical and wrong, into a virtue: Put the gun of state to the heads of the producing half of the country and force them to “spread their wealth” with the other half who are not producing. That is, they voted for government sanctioned theft. Sweat deal eh?

The so-called “have nots” have voted to steal from the “haves.” Instead of working hard and striving, spending your life pursuing a dream and realizing the success (or lack thereof) from your efforts, you can now just steal it from your neighbor. Since most Obama voters don’t understand history, they don’t understand it will last but a short time before “the government” will not only redistribute wealth, they will eliminate liberty along the way to being the all-caring nanny state the citizenry so desperately wants. It makes no difference that I point this out, because they don’t care, and by the time they do care it will be too late. Already it has begun. Do you have a 401(k)? Kiss your money goodbye–the Obama government is going to steal it and share it with everyone else by dumping it into the Social Security black hole. Have money invested in the stock market? If you make a profit, more of your profits will be forcibly taken by the Obama government to fund their giveaways to non-producers. Disagree with Lord Barack, the Messiah, the Anointed One? Here comes the “Fairness Doctrine” which will gut the First Amendment of the Constitution (the right of free speech and dissent). Hey, you voted for this, I sure didn’t!

Here’s some brillant analysis from an article on National Review Online written by Mark Steyn, called The Death of the American Idea. It succinctly outlines the superiority of capitalism and self-determination versus socialism and big government:

I don’t need Barack Obama’s help to “spread the wealth around.” I spread my wealth around every time I hire somebody, expand my business, or just go to the general store and buy a quart of milk and loaf of bread. As far as I know, only one bloated plutocrat declines to spread his wealth around, and that’s Scrooge McDuck, whose principal activity in Disney cartoons was getting into his little bulldozer and plowing back and forth over a mountain of warehoused gold and silver coins. Don’t know where he is these days. On the board at Halliburton, no doubt. But most of the beleaguered band of American capitalists do not warehouse their wealth in McDuck fashion. It’s not a choice between hoarding and spreading, but a choice between who spreads it best: an individual free to make his own decisions about investment and spending, or Barney Frank. I don’t find that a difficult question to answer. More to the point, put Barney & Co in charge of the spreading, and there’ll be a lot less to spread.

I disagree with my fellow conservatives who think the Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Frank liberal behemoth will so obviously screw up that they’ll be routed in two or four years’ time. The President-elect’s so-called “tax cut” will absolve 48 per cent of Americans from paying any federal income tax at all, while those that are left will pay more. Just under half the population will be, as Daniel Henninger pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, on the dole. By 2012, it will be more than half, and this will be an electorate where the majority of the electorate will be able to vote itself more lollipops from the minority of their compatriots still dumb enough to prioritize self-reliance, dynamism, and innovation over the sedating cocoon of the nanny state. That is the death of the American idea — which, after all, began as an economic argument: “No taxation without representation” is a great rallying cry. “No representation without taxation” has less mass appeal. For how do you tell an electorate living high off the entitlement hog that it’s unsustainable and you’ve got to give some of it back?

I recommend you read the entire article. It’s short and insightful.

We now head into the long, dark night. I believe history will look back at this election and say it was the year America’s freedom and liberty, along with its unique identity and special place in the world, died.

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