Politico,
Losing an election is horrible. I know that very well and had the same week as all the other Romney supporters who are mourning the state and perceived future of the nation, albeit for rather different reasons (and I happened to believe America is more fatally ill from my perspective than it is from yours).
But we vote in elections for the politicians that we think will
improve our lives. But no matter who wins you still have to get out of bed the next morning and go through life to the best of your ability in work/personal relationships/etc. We have a habit in our political analysis to think that winning alone will cure our ills. But it matters much more what we do with our lives than who wins, or even who we vote for. We can never forget that and allow ourselves to be broken and destroyed by losing an election when the whole point of supporting the candidate we did was that we believed his victory would make life better than it is under President Obama. If President Obama wants to destroy my life, he'll have to do that himself; I won't do it for him. I think somewhere deep down you know that to be true too.
I also urge you not to write off America just yet. Yes, the future sucks and it will only get worse, I have no hope for a government or a society that will get better for the rest of my life, and on and on. In your view this is what you consider to be socialism and for me it's the destruction of morality that used to be observed in this country. I look forward to many long years of being surrounded by a hippie free-love sex culture where all politicians make ads telling people voting for them is like having sex
That's how I read the "forward" slogan. For you, an increased reliance on the government is likely in store for years to come. But by writing off America, we would also be writing off all the faceless people who haven't even been born yet. They will grow up in a very different America than the one we grew up in, yes that's true. But just because they came from a background we each view as less optimal, yours with the government and mine with looser morals, doesn't mean every person born later can be written off as a lost cause. But writing off America that's what we'd be doing. Many people who come after us may turn out to be horrible, immoral from my perspective and "welfare queens" from yours. In fact it's pretty likely there will be many who could fit into both categories. But they deserve a chance to make that choice, not us.
