Originally Posted by Guest

You say that now after your old girl lost . However all during the very long campaign you did not give a damn what a conservative had to say about anything .

Most of my long time conservative friends are extremely well educated in finance , business and economics . Most of my conservative friends hold MBA`s and PHD`s from top Universities .
Further , most of my close political friends have had lengthy [ 35 Years + ] careers in industries that matter a great deal to this country and we have all had very senior management responsibilities .
We came out of our Undergrad years in the early 70`s . Many of us served our country and some directly in the Theater of War .
In college we were not the Demonstrators we were the ROTC guys with the short hair .
Across the years of our careers we watched as our once great Nation dumbed down it`s core education system to the point that critical thinking , persuasive writing , advanced Math and science as well as factual history instruction gave way to" feelings" and a false narrative about the place of America in the World .
Eventually , as we approached the later years as senior executives we saw a distinctive decline in the education preparation of the young people coming out of our once finest colleges and universities .
We saw not only a decline in basic abilities such as the ability to form and write an analytical document and in the ability of the writer to be able to take a position of advocacy and defend it at the risk of losing their credibility or even their employment .
I found myself needing to send Harvard MBAs off to a local college for coaching in persuasive writing , however ; there was little to nothing we could do instill the ability of that same individual to stand up and take a position on a business issue .
This was a new generation of American`s who could not move outside of " Group Think ". They needed the personal security of " The Group ". And frankly American Business just does not function
that way . We were paying top quality MBA Grads up to $140,000 per year to start .
We were paying for the best and the brightest and those with a strong sense of individualism but it just was no longer present as compared to the newly minted MBAs of a decade earlier .
By now you are asking yourself what does this have to do with current politics . This situation in a microcosm is what the sacrifice of individualism for the " group " is what the past decades of our educational system being controlled by the Left has brought us .
We have become a Nation of helpless individuals who are ultra-sensitive and programmed to constantly seek to identify and label anything and everything as " bad " in some manner .
It causes the aspects of a strong individual personality and thought process to be sublimated to the comfort and security found in a PC Mantra that has become so prevalent that it is now supplanted traditional Jewish and Christian values as the National Religion .
So this far Left influence in shaping the thinking and functioning of what now amounts to about 40% or more of our Nation`s adults is one of the major reasons our economy is in a nearly zero growth state for a long run .
No courage , no strong leadership , limited innovation , very limited new business formation and few risk takers is the result of years of programming of our young people thru the dumbing down of our education systems including colleges .
The Dem Party today is NOT the party of JFK . If he were around today he would be appalled at what this Nation as devolved into . He was a man of action. He advocated youthful vigor and risk taking . He did not " hate " American Business " . He understood how a strong business sector was critical to the strength and prosperity of the Nation . He was not a man who saw our domestic politics as an unyielding battle of " them vs us " . Further he was willing to set an example as a strong leader who was willing to risk his presidency in exchange for doing the right thing .
We need a strong growing economy . We need a strong military which causes others to respect us and sense that if necessary we will us it .
We need to move away from the " Tyranny ofThe Minority " which has far too long dominated the discussion in our figurative public square .
While our public conversation is focused on who can pee in what rest rooms the rest of the world is becoming both economically and militarily powerful .
While we seemed fixated on whether or not some cake baker out in Iowa will or will not and should be legally required or not to bake a wedding cake our country has doubled it`s debt in the last 8 years . By the way what did we get for that $10 Trillion we just borrowed . Our national debt now works out to over $150,000 per citizen from the newly born to the soon to be dead . Does that alarm you at all ?
No the solution is not to " come together " for a group hug and a couple of folk songs . No , not at all .
This is a time which should call for some serious introspection and a lot of thinking about what our priorities we should ask our elected leaders to focus upon . We need clear , unemotional honest thinking and strong actions .
We need them now . We have the chance with our incoming CEO to bring a halt to spending our valuable time on issues which have little to no impact on the future of our Nation .
You and all the others who might still be wiping away tears from Tuesday night need to decide if you want the Country`s leaders to focus on the Nation`s economic health or to continue our downward spiral .
Notice how our financial markets have reacted to the election of a new direction . Stock prices are based on the future expectations of growth and profits . Apparently the Market feels the Nation has chosen the right path forward .