Comments on: The certain road to post-election happiness… https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:37:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: marymcl https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-89171 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:37:15 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-89171 Alas, here in the soviet of Washington, all the liquor stores are owned by the state! We can’t seem to win for losing on this one…

]]> By: Everett Parker https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88799 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:20:18 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88799 My extended family has been discussing a move to the ranch in Wyoming. My wife and I closed our California house two months ago and are, temporarily, the largest employers in the county getting the guest houses ready; topping up the fuel tanks and putting in a second propane tank for the possible in-migration.

We’ve been emulating our LDS neighbors for years and it is comforting to tick off the sides of beef aging in the cool house and freezers, the shelves of canned goods from the garden and orchard and the shrink wrapped pallets. We took some “hobby ranch” grief years ago when we bought the place. None lately. Nothing like a little healthy paranoia.

]]> By: Alex Bensky https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88789 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:50:36 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88789 Reminds me of the old joke: “Did you hear about the [ethnic group] version of “The Agony and the Ecstasy? The [ethnic] marries someone a [member of a different group]. That’s “agony.” It turns out the [ethnic of a different group]’s father is a liquor distributor. That’s ecstasy.”

Fortunately I live in Michigan, which oddly enough is one of the chief fronts in the Great American Beer Revolution. I already have some double IPA in the refrigerator, 9.6% alcohol by volume, and a couple of those on election night if necessary will put me right out.

]]> By: Sergey https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88778 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:38:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88778 Paradoxically, but repeated collapses of Towers are also parts of the divine plan of the Temple construction: they prepare soil for new seeds. Thus, collapse of Communism prepared conditions for world-wide surge of democracy and capitalism. Collapse of Lindon Johnson’s Great Society made possible Reagan conservative revolution; and advances of a secular and socialist Zionist project, which also fail with decline of Kibbutz project, prepared conditions for religious settler’s movement. The mammoth project of American Revolution admits both interpretation – as a Tower and as The Temple, and this ambiguty is the nerve of the present culture war.

]]> By: Sergey https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88777 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:08:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88777 This split is unavoidable and essentially eternal: there always were and would be Temple builders, and Babel Tower builders, and they have different psychology. The first are humble participants in a divine plan, and behave accordingly, and the second – arrogant and self-aggrandizing rebels against this plan, replacing it with various utopias of their own making. The first see human nature as immutable, tainted with original sin and needed in cultural correction; the second believe that it does not exist naturally and is only a cultural construct, pliable to arbitrary change. This fallacy eventually leads to collapse of a vogue plan of the Tower erection, and to a new cycle of great awakening, reestablishing of traditional values and later of rebellion against them, giving rise to a new and doomed project of Tower erection.

]]> By: camojack https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88776 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:47:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88776 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

Unless you owned a liquor store… 😉

]]> By: Perfected democrat https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88771 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:07:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88771 Oh well, the cup is still almost half full, at least a little less than half the country still hasn’t lost their marbles…

]]> By: Perfected democrat https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88770 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:05:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88770 I’ll drink to that…

]]> By: PGH https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88740 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:50:32 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88740 Great video about massive fraud and intimidation by Obama supporters against Hillary supporters in the primaries & caucusses….Go to YouTube and type in “We Will Not Be Silenced” a four part video…There are at least two videos by that name on YouTube..Make sure you get the one about election fraud not the one about Bush…

]]> By: FredHjr https://thenewneo.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88733 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:08:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/10/14/the-certain-road-to-post-election-happiness/#comment-88733 The psychological adjustment to an Obama victory, for me, has already begun. It consists of trying to resign myself to it. But, it’s hard. I remember what the 1970’s were like. One of America’s worst decades, and for younger Baby Boomers like myself it was hardly a time to be nostalgic about.

I tend not to drown my troubles in booze. I have not been drunk for many, many years. The last time I was, the hangover prompted me to resolve to never do it again. Jack Daniels…

The best thing I know of to console oneself… hard to choose, there are so many.

But first you just have to tell yourself that life goes on and do what you can to help shape the future within your own orbit of control. And then throw yourself into some hobby or activity.

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