This post is about something basic. When you encounter a problem, do you look for causes outside of yourself, or within yourself? Do you look in the mirror, or do you point fingers?
That's not the way this post started. I was going to do another post-mortem type of post which basically came down to blaming other people rather our own side. It was going to be basically a finger pointing exercise against the general public. Then I remember something I've seen plenty of times in my life when things weren't going so well.
It goes something like this: "If I have a problem, I caused it."
This may sound too good to be true. Why blame yourself when there's plenty of reasons to blame others? The blaming of others may well be justified. There really are people who try to stand in the way of your success and will go to almost any length to try to make you fail.
It is not as if somebody can't succeed at making you fail.
No, this isn't any goody two shoes type of advice.
It is really the only way to get through life sanely. Nobody is perfect. A little more self-improvement never hurt anybody.
So, instead of blaming the Democrats, the media, and the people in general, the Republicans ought to say something like this--- "I screwed up. I will try to do better next time."
In the end, you are the only one who has complete control over how you deal with the problems in your own life. Own it and stop worrying about the other guy.
Update:
What I wrote here seems to conflict with what Limbaugh said recently. Consider the following quote:
Republicans are always the architects of the problem. Republicans are the ones who don't care. Republicans are the ones who are unfair. Republicans are the ones who are racist or whatever. So the left covers up its own mistakes by blaming others for them and then doubles down on the mistake by creating it all over again in the solution to the problem.So, you say that the other guy always says "it's your fault". But by doing so, he never does anything to better himself. Eventually, this other guy falls into a deep trap of his own making. My point is that you can't do anything about that. I suppose you can try, but you have no control over other people's decisions. You can't control the way they think. What you do have 100% control over is how you think yourself.
I agree that the answer isn't to become like them. The answer is to become a better version of yourself.
Update:
Yet another thing here. Becoming a better version of yourself does not mean becoming more of what you find fault with in others. What does that mean politically?
There wasn't any defense of Bush. Why not? Are Republicans conceding that Bush caused the Great Recession? Why not deny that Bush was at fault? Why not defend Bush vigorously? His jobs record was better than Obama in both of his terms. His deficit record was better than Obama's in both his terms. Why not defend Bush?
Oil production is increasing. Why not attribute that to Bush's policies?
Bush didn't even defend himself. Why let the Democrats attack without any self-defense? This isn't an advocacy of blaming the other guy for your troubles. Let the other guy be the other guy. Forget about the other guy. Let the Democrats slip into greater and greater reliance upon government. They weaken themselves this way. You have to be a better version of yourself. A better version of yourself sticks up for himself. To become a better version of yourself means to not let yourself become a pushover in order to please someone who doesn't like or respect you anyway.
Update:
Basically, I think this has been a roundabout way of saying that the Republicans lost in 2012 because they wouldn't defend Bush. In addition, Bush wouldn't defend Gingrich in 2000. But Gingrich wouldn't defend Bush's dad after the 1990 tax increase. So, the lack of defense of Bush is probably a part of the intraparty bickering. But the intraparty bickering is a result of the lack of a strong stand against the Democrats.
The answer isn't to give in to the Democrats. The answer is how to remain united so that you can beat them.
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