I wrote this in a Facebook Post (the still-hidden Ball Diamond Ball FB group) when it was clear that we had lost in 2012.\u00a0 I felt then, and had said several times, that an Obama re-election would be a point of no return for the country.\u00a0 I still believe that it is true — we will never recover the Constitutional functioning of our Republic — all that is left is to muddle forward and find a way to re-instill some small portion of what has been lost.\u00a0 We are in the business of defensive fortifications, which is never a good place to be.\u00a0 We have been Fundamentally Transformed, as promised, as voted, as delivered.<\/p>\n
Upon Obama’s re-election, I developed chest pains and began having anxiety attacks any time I sat down to write about politics.\u00a0 I thought I had a heart attack the night of the election, and was relieved many months later to learn what angina pectoris<\/em> was.\u00a0 That’s apparently Latin for “feels like a heart attack”.<\/p>\n Just the same, I wished in my despair to provide some leadership to my group (as much as they would have off of me), to comfort the afflicted, rally the troops, tend to the wounded, etc.\u00a0 I re-read this in the course of cleaning up the old FB group in order to make it public, and tie it in with the blog.\u00a0 I was pleased with my own writing, if I do say so myself.\u00a0 Obama broke me in 2012.\u00a0 I’ve never really gotten it back.<\/p>\n The post:<\/p>\n Friends and Patriots<\/p>\n Okay, conservatives. Mind your manners. Shut your mouths. Nothing you say on Facebook or anywhere else will do any good or change anything, at least, not for the better. IF YOU WOULD MASTER YOUR ENEMY, FIRST MASTER YOURSELF<\/p>\n Accept with poise and self-control the equally worthless words of your co-workers and family. Reflect upon how complete our defeat truly is. I feel despair, but I resist. I want to lash out, but I refuse. I wish to burn and smash, to delete and quit, but I know that these are unhealthy and unwise reactions to our fortune. So weigh your actions. Measure your words. Limit your audience. Heal yourself. Lift up the needy that they may lift you in your need.<\/p>\n Do not try to change or control that which is too late and too large for your effort. Do not damage yourself in recklessness any further than your well-earned wounds from this desperate battle. We have lost, and we now have internal needs to tend to. Which is just as well, because we are well and truly screwed in our struggle, for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n Yet that which is not seen, we ignore at our peril, and this is as true of opportunities and threats as it is of Bastiat’s shoemaker. So be quiet and be of good cheer, for we have lost, and our anger can hurt only ourselves and our sacred Constitutional cause.<\/p>\n A SENSE OF HUMOR IS THE LAST EFFECTIVE TOOL IN OUR KIT<\/p>\n When people ask me about it, knowing full-well where I stand and have stood for years, I tell them it’s okay, that I got my brain implant, I’m now picking up the transmission from the White House, and I was wrong. Freedom is for chumps and I’m glad I finally got controlled like the rest of America. I genuinely laugh and then I genuinely make my way out of the conversation. Anybody wants to pick over my guts, they won’t have my help in doing it. I won’t lose my composure without having it kicked out of me, and I don’t see anybody man enough to do the job.<\/p>\n Master yourself, care for your allies. Recover, and return to the fight in good shape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n I wrote this in a Facebook Post (the still-hidden Ball Diamond Ball FB group) when it was clear that we had lost in 2012.\u00a0 I felt then, and had said several times, that an Obama re-election would be a point of no return for the country.\u00a0 I still believe that it is true — we will never recover the Constitutional functioning of our Republic — all that is left is to muddle forward and find a way to re-instill some small portion of what has been lost.\u00a0 We are in the business of defensive fortifications, which is never a good place to be.\u00a0 We have been Fundamentally Transformed, as promised, as voted, as delivered.<\/p>\n Upon Obama’s re-election, I developed chest pains and began having anxiety attacks any time … Continue reading
\nTalk is nothing. Group is nothing. Education is nothing.
\nThere is only victory or defeat, and we have lost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThe Constitution is already ignored. It will not survive the next four years. Now how shall we talk our way out of this?
\nMeanwhile, take care of somebody who needs taking care of right now. We have many wounded, so to speak. Reach out privately to affirm and appreciate those who have given their energy, their time, their money, and in some cases, their livelihoods.<\/p>\n