The saddest day in my life

Today I am in mourning.  Mourning for an apparent loss of sanity in America.  The reality TV watching masses of hand-out seekers have elected their messiah who promises government solutions to all their problems with no personal sacrifice (except all those “fat cats” that deserve a little F**(ing anyway“).  America has elected a leader with a silver tongue, a protectionist, socialist agenda and the thinnest excuse for experience in a century.

What makes America great is our unique balance of power between the individual and the state.  In general the individual has more rights and is more important and responsible for their lot in life.  In general America trusts it’s citizens the most of any country in the world to generate wealth, keep it, and spend it wisely.  The opposite of this trust is socialism:

Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. As an economic system, socialism is usually associated with state or collective ownership of the means of production. This control, according to socialists, may be either direct, exercised through popular collectives such as workers’ councils, or it may be indirect, exercised on behalf of the people by the state.

There has always been a tension in this country between capitalism and socialism. Capitalism has shot itself in the foot in the last eight years.  While this was started by Clinton’s extension of credit to the poor in the form of subprime mortgages as a form of socialism, Obama has been successful in painting this effort as an excess of capitalism.  While wrong, most people believe it and now we are going to grasp at socialism for awhile trying to avoid any personal responsibility for anything.  And killing any reward for entrepreneurship and innovation along the way. 

I hope I am wrong.  I fear I am right.