2022 Elections Provide Clarity

I emerge from my election induced isolation to view the political state of the country in a shambles.  The Red Wave evaporated through some combination of fraud and partisan destiny.  The full horror is not yet on display due to the new absentee and vote by mail fraud options that have been put in place.  But more than enough is known to confirm that Republicans will no longer be able to win strong majorities in the Congress.  I say this because as I’ve stated many times before in 2022, they were running with the strongest conditions in their favor they could possibly hope for.  Runaway inflation, the recent memory of COVID fascism, obvious military incompetence, shortages of foods and essential consumer products along with a president whose favorability rating was running around 40% was a perfect storm that should have guaranteed a tidal wave of congressional gains in the mid-term elections.  This did not occur.

When the dust settles it looks like they’ll take over the House.  The Senate will probably remain with the Democrats or at best will have a one-seat Republican majority.  By my calculus this means the political balance is now shifted to the Democrats for the foreseeable future.  I now acknowledge the dissident right’s mantra, “We’re not going to vote our way out of this.”

Admitting this is not an easy thing to do.  It limits the options for the future and leaves a lot of poor choices as the best-case scenarios.  But being honest about the reality of the world we live in is the smartest choice and in the long run the choice that will provide the best outcome for me.  So, there it is.

This is just the beginning of the morning after analysis.  I’ll wait for the dust to settle before going into any detailed analysis of whether it was fraud or partisan advantage.  It’ll take a while for the fraud machines in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia to print out all those fake ballots and tabulate them.  And that’s fine.  It doesn’t much matter how the breakdown turns out.  It might be interesting to know the details but it won’t change anything substantive.  But it will provide some additional information on the system in place.

And it will take additional time for me to begin analyzing how this new reality affects my plans for the future.  What it means is that all my options involve evaluating different local conditions and the way they’ll be affected by the Democrats permanently dominating the federal government.  This will be the trickiest part of the calculus.  After all, what does a man such as Ron DeSantis do with his local authority in Florida?  Does he openly defy the federal government when they go after his challenges to their social justice agenda?  Or does he hunker down and play ball with the feds?

Well, it’s a bleak morning.  I won’t pretend it isn’t.  But as it is written, “the truth shall make you free.”  And truth is what we need in copious quantities.  No more false hopes, no more rose-tinted glasses.  The harsh, daylight of the ugly morning after.  Bring it on, bring it on, bring it on.