Comments about ‘In our opinion: With the new year, optimism ought to be the guiding light to the future’

Re: ". . . collective optimism . . . say[s] much about who people really are."

True. The only way to live a meaningful and productive life is as a perpetual optimist.

But, at the same time, we can't lose sight of the fact that we are engaged in a true cultural war. One in which the enemy has scored more recent victories than have we.

Liberals hoot over recent wins. Leftist political hacks suggest their wild political gyrations amount to dancing on the grave of real, traditional America, bleating that it no longer exists because it has been "fundamentally changed." We're in hock up to our eyeballs. Important, fundamental freedoms are in danger. Bloated Big Government grows bigger. Millions of innocent unborn are dying. Organized crime/labor surges. And the current political regime indicates it intends to stay that foolish, dangerous course.

All this might lead real people to withdraw from the fight, or believe it's one we can no longer win.

That would be truly sad.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Always will be.

Procura, I think you are exactly the kind of person John Steinbeck was referring to when he wrote in Travels With Charley:

"It is the nature of a man as he grows older . . . to protest against change, particularly change for the better. We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain."

I truly feel sorry for you. You could be helping to lead us into a great future. Or you can continue trying to hold us back from the greatness that could be ours -- and yours.

My father, who died nearly a decade ago, would occasionally tell the story of a man who met a friend who was sad. "Cheer up" the man told his despairing friend, "Things could be worse" And, wouldn't you know it, the friend cheered up, and, sure enough, things got worse!

So might become the epitaph of your reasoning above. For to have hope, true hope, one must have a reason to be hopeful.

Isaiah wrote 7 or 8 centuries before Christ, "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."

—Isaiah 3:12

The "children" oppressing us are adults, who are acting childishly. The POTUS is determined on allowing or forcing the US to go over the fiscal cliff. His war on wealth will make us all even poorer than we have become, compared to what we were before.

Another Microsoft or Apple won't save us. Only right living and right doing will. Dinesh DeSouza's 2016 film helps us understand the true motives of Barrack Hussein Obama. We ignored his warning to our own peril!

"Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow." Is it possible he was commenting on the physical pain of dying? It's entirely possible.

I'm very optimistic. I'm optimistic that at long last people will begin to see through the Keynesian fallacies that have created our current economic debacle. I'm hopeful that once and for all, the myth that economies can spend their way out of a recession or depression will finally and forever be discarded.

What Steve jobs saw or what he meant, only he knows as was noted in the article. However, over a year ago I found it interesting when I read the account given by the sister of Mr. Jobs. Reading her comments you realize that Mr. Jobs was coherent, talked to his wife, children and sister and then as she describes it he seemed to look past them and in amazing wonder said "Oh Wow, Oh Wow, Oh Wow.

Re: "I truly feel sorry for you. You could be helping to lead us into a great future."

Thanks for your concern. But, don't feel too bad -- I AM one of many attempting to lead us into a great future, rather than the drab, gray, soul-crushing one [Orwell's 1984] envisioned by liberals.

I'm a happy, mostly optimistic revolutionary reactionary. ["In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- Orwell, again]

The people I feel for are liberals. Most will someday come to understand how they're being played by their "leaders," many, mindlessly adhering to a failed, discredited orthodoxy, themselves.

I saw my parents -- rock-ribbed rural Roosevelt Democrats -- go through the normal disillusionment cycle, once they worked themselves free of the phony gratitude liberals cynically demand of rubes for the "free" largess with which they buy their votes. Free to them, ruinously expensive to us.

It was painful. But, even worse, some liberals will still cling fiercely to the liberal Santa Claus myth, notwithstanding the mountain of evidence it's a sham.

optimism at the national level? HA! I don't think so. Optimism at a personal level should always be part of ones life - trying to become more healthy, and removing stress, adding security, etc.... perhaps this year trying to downsize and reduce debt!

Optimism at the national level died on Nov 6th for anyone who pays attention. If you are a small business owner you are scared stiff with new Obama taxes and regulations coming. If you are looking for employment - good luck because unemployment is projected to rise once again due to Obama policies. If you are a graduating college student the market is still weak. I suspect the only optimism out there has to do with those who expect to get more free-bees from the government...at least until we run out of other peoples money. I guess we could all be optimistic that our military is going to be cut to the bone - well maybe Iran ,North Korea, China and Russia will be more optimistic at least.