My opinion, post election

[tiffosis]

 

I'll preface this by saying that if anyone of you feels the need to defriend me after I share my opinion here, so be it. Your loss, as well as mine, for feeling that a difference of opinions is a just reason to cut someone out. I hope that you don't, though. I like each and every one of you.

I'm not here to argue. But with how much everyone's spent sharing their feelings without me saying boo about it, I would hope that I would be garnered with the same respect when I finally share mine.

 

I cried last night too.

 

I cried because I felt this election, in whole, let me down. I cried because I felt that neither of the candidates are fit to run this country. 

 

I feel bereft of all this hope everyone else is giddy about. I am skeptical. I am bitter. I feel that the Republican party that I have been a part of my since I was a teen has let me down and failed me, and used John McCain as a flimsy excuse, instead of finding someone that had a chance.

 

I miss Ronald Reagan.

 

I have not seen anything from President-elect Obama that inspires me to believe what he has sold during his campaign. Too many questions answered with vague, misdirecting, and pre-scripted comments. Too many things never addressed, or pushed behind the curtain. There is a corner of my heart that is afraid. I do not take kindly to the phrase "redistribution of wealth". I want no one's help but my own, thank you.

 

When it comes to economic and foreign policy, I am very conservative.

 

But, what's done is done. I cannot change the outcome. What I can do, and will, is accept Obama as the leader of this country, and to pray to the God that I strongly believe in to help lead him in being a strong and truthful leader, and to get the country back on track again.

 

I am also saddened by my fellow residents here in California for voting on several propositions that are senseless and expensive.

 

I hope that my doubts are wrong, I really, really do. All I ask is respect my doubts and fears, and not to be told that I am wrong. I have respected your opinions.

 

I had an unfortunate experience a few weeks ago, in which a person that I did not know condemn me in a public place, after overhearing me state my political preferences and how I was voting. I know that I am not the only person this has happened to, and instances like these have happened all across the country. And I am NOT pointing a finger solely at Democrats. There are Republicans also who have acted in the this shameful manner. This is America, and every single one of us is allowed our own opinions and the freedom of speech to express those without the fear of repercussions. I hope these offenders of free speech come to remember that.

This is why I was so touched yesterday during the funeral I attended, that everyone was united and no one argued about who was right and who was wrong, who's the winner and the loser. We simply stood in silent reverance of a man who served his country with pride
 

Comments

[choco-chippie.livejournal.com]

My dad and step mom are very conservative while my mom and other step mom are quite liberal so I hear both sides of it. I was not the least bit excited about this election knowing that no matter who won, the people would lose. The whole election, not just the outcome, was depressing for me.

[tiffosis.livejournal.com]

i agree, depressing it sure was. on so many levels.