Why Obama won a second term...
People are comfortable with the familiar and those that voted for him are comfortable with him as President. Am I comfortable with him, no. Never have been. In fact the last four years have been unconvincing to me that he deserves reelection, but I'm just one vote out of millions that were cast this evening.
I can't know what the people who voted wanted out of this election but my guess is that it rests on the battle over entitlements: healthcare, social security, and other social benefits. People vote for these expecting to get them and to help their problems, but the truth is simply it just makes them lazy.
So why didn't Romney win? Romney was the wrong candidate against Obama. It had been no secret to Republicans during the primaries that Obama had considerable lead on all but one. The party just could not even possibly be flexible enough and have the charisma to overcome the attachment to the familiar.
Personally I didn't like either one and voted for Gary Johnson. My conviction is on liberty and freedom (the Libertarian Party is the closest party we have to that) two words that mean considerably less every day no matter which party is in the White House. We are no longer the Americans we use to be, we settle for security over freedom and emotions over liberty. Every single day the governments at all levels, from cities to states to the Federal government pass new laws and make new regulations that require more time to be wasted in compliance and to create new layers of bureaucracy by requiring new licenses and new taxes. We now do more to limit the ability for the lower class to develop their own businesses when they see an opportunity to do so than we do to prevent large corporations from doing the same. The incentives to succeed are now perverted and until people understand the importance of how economics works, it will only get worse. Faith in leaders is normal for a society, but a misguided faith through emotions allows that faith to be silently betrayed in the background.
The only solution I can see to solve the problems over liberty and freedom is to show the people through observations of bureaucracies in a local grand jury. To be part of the apparatus to keep the those that rule on our behalf in check, otherwise they will never see what goes on behind the proverbial curtains.
I can't know what the people who voted wanted out of this election but my guess is that it rests on the battle over entitlements: healthcare, social security, and other social benefits. People vote for these expecting to get them and to help their problems, but the truth is simply it just makes them lazy.
So why didn't Romney win? Romney was the wrong candidate against Obama. It had been no secret to Republicans during the primaries that Obama had considerable lead on all but one. The party just could not even possibly be flexible enough and have the charisma to overcome the attachment to the familiar.
Personally I didn't like either one and voted for Gary Johnson. My conviction is on liberty and freedom (the Libertarian Party is the closest party we have to that) two words that mean considerably less every day no matter which party is in the White House. We are no longer the Americans we use to be, we settle for security over freedom and emotions over liberty. Every single day the governments at all levels, from cities to states to the Federal government pass new laws and make new regulations that require more time to be wasted in compliance and to create new layers of bureaucracy by requiring new licenses and new taxes. We now do more to limit the ability for the lower class to develop their own businesses when they see an opportunity to do so than we do to prevent large corporations from doing the same. The incentives to succeed are now perverted and until people understand the importance of how economics works, it will only get worse. Faith in leaders is normal for a society, but a misguided faith through emotions allows that faith to be silently betrayed in the background.
The only solution I can see to solve the problems over liberty and freedom is to show the people through observations of bureaucracies in a local grand jury. To be part of the apparatus to keep the those that rule on our behalf in check, otherwise they will never see what goes on behind the proverbial curtains.