Sunday, March 21, 2010

I'M WORKING MY WAY THROUGH THE STAGES OF GRIEF.

The 2010 elections, which just yesterday looked like a promising stop-gap against President Obama's disastrous ambitions, now look like too little too late. I am disheartened. What can be done? Is this irreversible?
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7 comments:

Beth said...

Oh, Joshua...

Some of us are excited at the hope of affordable health care. We've lived too long in these frustrating, disheartening cracks.

Surely it won't be perfect, but at least they're trying to fix a system that doesn't work for so many, and actually works against them.

Then again, a low-ish income and a chronic health condition may be making us biased, haha :)

Mar 22, 2010, 7:35:00 AM
Josh Tate said...

Those things could have, and I believe would have, been fixed without this menace of a bill!

Mar 22, 2010, 9:18:00 AM
al'xae said...

Oh my Republican friend... GWB did many things that made me feel the same way... Roosevelt pissed my Grandmother off well into the 1990's, Reagan passed some laws that still have my Mom angry...

and yet the country doesn't stop, power switches, and hopefully somewhere between liberals and conservatives both screwing everything up, eventually hasty bills get eased into better systems... I think it's all from the perils of having the government run by career politicians.
Take heart, look for the glimmers of good and I'm sure soon the government will be pissing me off more than you. :)

Mar 24, 2010, 10:40:00 PM
al'xae said...

It will all be ok Josh.

Remember; love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you...

don't get bitter.

Mar 26, 2010, 1:29:00 AM
Josh Tate said...

Alexae, spiritualizing the debate isn't helpful here. In addition to presuming sinful attitudes, you also assume that my reaction to this bill and its supporters is primarily an emotional one when, in fact, I have real, substantive reasons for opposing it.

I don't hate liberals. Nor do I feel persecuted by them (yet). To the degree that anyone can objectively take inventory of their hearts, I believe that to be a true statement about the condition of my heart, but I am ideologically opposed to them, and that without apology. I think their philosophy of governance, and the policies that flow from it, are, in a word, "disastrous," and a poison to our national vigor.

I am sorry if I gave the impression that I was motivated by a personal animosity towards those with whom I am ideologically opposed. If so, I have represented myself poorly.

I like you, but I think you are wrong.

Mar 26, 2010, 10:29:00 AM
al'xae said...

Well Josh, considering I haven't actually given much opinion here beyond "It's not as bad as it seems" I'm sorry if you're that despondent.

Perhaps 1 Timothy 2 would have been scripture to throw at you.

All I'm saying is that after eight years of a presidency that I had no connection to and endless frustrations with, I understand feeling marginalized.
I found that getting upset about things I had no power over only makes one miserable.

Who does have power over our leaders?

---That's all I'm sayin'. Debating politics over the internet would probably a bad idea for you and me.
Cool?

Mar 26, 2010, 11:20:00 AM
Josh Tate said...

Cool.

Mar 26, 2010, 11:44:00 AM

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