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I  ADMIT  I  AM  A  2-TIME  LOSER:    I VOTED FOR MCCAIN AND ROMNEY.   THIS DUDE IS A WINNER AND AN ENTREPRENEUR --  Right on, right on, right on!!!

Most of my Filipino American friends voted for Obama in the 2008 and 2012 elections. They said  he's young, good-looking and intelligent.  They were so damn proud they voted for him.  Unlike McCain who's old, continue the war, and didn't know how to use the computer.  And Romney...he's just rich and a Mormon.  As a well-informed Republican I'm puking like McCain.  I don't know about Romney.

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I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH THIS ARTICLE, written by someone who shall remain anonymous because I did not ask for permission. Selected and digested:

Well, what happened on election day?  There are lots of pundits who have egg on their faces today, Nov. 7, 2012.  Apparently, the looming probability of economic collapse didn't matter to voters.  The fact that the current government spends $$$TEN (10) BILLION DOLLARS$$$ while we take in only $$$six billion$$$ everyday didn't bother the majority of the voters one little bit.  What bothered the voters was the perceived association of a certain political party (which will go unmentioned for fear of the government thought police and tax assesors) with traditional Judeo-Christian values.  I am not sure that party really is Christian, but it seemed smart at the time to appear Christian.  The election was not about the economy.  It was about sex and work.
Sigmund Freud was a strange little man, but as the saying goes, even the clock that is broken is right twice a day.  Freud said something that I think is actually reasonable and useful in deciphering what happened at the election.  He defined mental health as the ability to love and work.  If Freud is right, The US of America took a major step toward becoming the ME of America on election day.  Citizens of ME demand that the government give them what they want and make no restrictions regarding the consequences of sexual couplings, even if those consequences are living and breathing children.  It will guarantee my right to kill them, if I deem it necessary.  Our sexuality is no longer directed toward love defined as the giving of life.  Our economic life is less and less associated with productive work.  Pleasure and leisure are the order of the day, not Freud's "love and work."  We have rejected sanity, at least by Freud's definition, and this is the inevitable result of a nation that voted not against a particular party, but against God as we Children of Abraham have known Him these 4,000 years.  The above unmentioned party will now probably come to its senses and reject pro-family, pro-life issues in the hope of winning elections.  I heard someone say that Nov. 6, 2012 was the inevitable result of April 6, 1917 when the US entered World War I on the side of England, Russia and France.  Why would one think that?  Empire!  That's why!  America ceased to be the founders envisioned when it entered the wars of imperialism, the war with Mexico in 1846, the War between the states, 1865, the war with Spain, 1898.  Having driven the indigenous people off the land, we proceeded to expand in what we called "manifest destiny".  It was our destiny to conquer territory, to bring Protestantism and the American system of government to all the world.  Now we are the world's police and we consider it our duty to bring democracy and condoms to all the little nations of the world.  We are experiencing the narcissism and decadence that seem inevitably to result from empire.  Christ is not King! We have no King but Caesar! We are an imperial nation and like all empires the bubble eventually burst.
Why all the history? I'm getting there.  People say there are no atheists in fox holes.  That is not true.  Studies indicate that fox holes are the birthing rooms of atheism.  Soldiers who see death and other barbarities wonder about the goodness of an all powerful God, forgetting all the while that God does not do these things. Europe lost its faith in the trenches of the first war.  The second half of the Great War, fought from 1936 to 1945, produced a second crop of soldiers who came back home as materialists saying, "My kids will not suffer the way I did."  And thus were born the fabulous fifties when American consumerism exploded with tract housing, big cars and a religion of convenience.  The pill made it possible for Mr. and Mrs. America to have just 2 or three kids on whom they could lavish all that they had been denied by two world wars, punctuated by economic depression.  The greatest value of this country became not honor, not country, not God.  The ruling principle of this country became "Gimme." (That's Chicagoan for "Give Me.") The greatest generation, so called, gave way to the most narcissistic generation (the baby boomers, of whom I am one) who gave birth to the entitlements of the Gimme generation.
We have just had an election that, I believe is the result of that series of wars.  People did not vote the economy.  They did not vote for the good of the country.  They voted for themselves.  There is a video on You Tube in which a woman very eloquently states her preference for one candidate because of her gratitude for the cell phone and other social services that his government had provided her.  Another example: a popular African American comedian made a very humorous video pointing out how a certain unlikely candidate should have been very acceptable to Caucasian Americans because, among other things, he supports same-sex marriage.  His opponent did not support such unions, at least not in this election.  America is no longer a Christian country.  One conservative commentator made the point on election night that the country has significantly more people now who claim to be non religious.  He asked the question "What else can we expect from a country that has rejected God?"
We have to face the facts.  The Christian cannot now sing "My country 'tis of thee.." rather we sing "My country 'twas of thee..."  We need to be Christians no matter what the consequence.  We need to quit pretending that all those voters who vote for their pleasures over their conscience are Christians.  Perhaps we need to start treating them at least as they are: ex Christians.  Perhaps we don't care about whether or not they go to hell, just so they come back to church for major holidays and pretend to be believers.
As for those who still are Christian who wonder what to do in this newly foreign country, I can only quote St. Paul: "May you become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe." (Phil 2:15)  Make sure you shine.  The world and the country needs light more that it has since the days of the Third Reich.
This country, The United States, formerly the greatest on earth is now ranked:

20th in economy
12th in entrepreneurship and opportunity
10th in governance
5th in education
2nd in health (Hey, that's not bad! Who's number one, I wonder)
27th in safety and security
14th in personal freedom
10th in social capital

Published  11/26/12  lib's labyrinth

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