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But I think we, really, lost. No Senate means very little change and only marginal power. To get anything done, negotiations will have to take place. Those negotiations do not favor the minor part of the power base real conservatives hold. The Dems are not going to back down or suddenly track right. It is a good start. But without those given an in doing something, which at this point they cannot do, there is little hope that those who loaned their vote will be hip on doing it again. With the speed at which modern Americans live, via the internet, facebook, texting, and all, people expect the world to change in their favor immediately. If it does not happen, they drift off. Having the attention span of fleas does not serve anyone. Just look at the elections from 1994 onward. Especially if exit polling is correct. The main issue was jobs. Those cannot return even after the problems with jobs being suppressed by high taxation and a corrupt new medical system are abated in full, and then time is allowed for business to spring back. Indians, ghost dancing, buffalo... smoke, mirrors, delusions, and death.
Beyond that, once people are shown that no matter how hard they work, the next administration or Congress just might loot it all, there is little incentive to keep trying. Once the initiative for people to strive for more is gone, it is a very difficult thing to bring back. I am not sure we saw anything tonight. A side note on a failed attempt to end the historic march to political and economic madness. I will continue to store goods and foods and pray. My hope, definitely, is not political. But the hopes I had for a political resolution to this nation becoming a hard socialism are fading quickly. It is not dead though. The next cycle will decide, without any doubt, if America is lost. By the third cycle out, we will know if America is perpetually lost or if it has a chance. I am not holding my breath. But then, I have a good chance of not be breathing by then anyway. I can, and would, roll in my grave though.
Good night.
Thing is, the Republicans are even less inclined to attack the root of the problem than are Democrats. Everything else is just rearranging the deck chairs--red herrings and distraction.
ReplyDeleteThe best we get this time is a bit of gridlock, which may buy some time.
Here we disagree. Insider Republicans, sure. But that was not the focus of the wins or the swing. What remains to be seen is how fast this new group collapses, gives in, and becomes corrupted. They all do. That is part of the reason I could never get onboard with the Libertarian or Constitution party. Term limits, for that very reason, would be good.
ReplyDeleteThis IS the right direction. My problem is that it might be too little too late. The only real power they have is the purse strings, and that only a bit. With the Senate and veto power against them, they simply have little power. Now, what is there is what we have. What they can wrangle out of the meager advantages is yet to be seen. I suppose, however, a fear of a repeat next cycle may... offer some wiggle room against veto and the entrenched "liberalism". I simply doubt how much wiggle room. My guess is that the absolutists retained their seats, for the most part.
Further, the greater the idealism going in, the worse the results when their boots hit the ground. Reality is not dictated by idealism, and when the two meet, the idealist crumbles. I will be watching key players from each of the various groups. Should be interesting.
Further, I suspect that who you and Vox blame are only tools. When you get to Soros sized parasites, sure, and on both sides of the political aisle. They do what they do to create or steal money. They are feeding machines to whom cheating, lying, stealing, murder, and payoffs are simply... tools. I do not think politicians can touch them. Further, they work mostly with and for heavily corrupt governments (China, Russia, the Middle East) than not, it's easier.