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THE LATE TERM POLITICAL ABORTION
The Geneva Shore Report does not often run articles about what’s happening in national politics, or as the direct result of what happens on the national political scene, but the latest occurrence, which is still in the final developing stages, makes current leadership changes, and continuance, in national political leadership almost impossible to ignore. The much over-hyped importance placed on the results of these mid-term elections has raised the bar when it comes to forcing almost all Americans to pay attention. The political ads have been deeply pervasive, awful in much-prevaricating content and in divisive effect, The divisive nature of what can only be considered either pro-Trump or anti-Trump directional belief system support could not and cannot be denied. The results of this definitive election are now pouring in, and those results are anything but what was predicted. The predictions, heavily supported by now paid-for polls and purposely skewed mass media predictions, were almost invariably wrong.
The democrats, as this newspaper goes to print, are fully in control of the U.S. Senate (given that senators Manchin and Sinema are and will likely remain ‘blue dog’ or republican leaning officeholders). This result could be skewed toward democratic control even more if the results of the final senate race (run-off in December) cause the republican candidate, Herschel Walker, to be defeated, which is more than likely now). The ability of only one democratic senator to skew democratically united votes becomes less and less likely, given the new power the democratic party is being handed by this election.
As of this writing, the House of Representatives remains undecided. If the republicans control the house by one, or a very few, vote, it will be extremely difficult for the party to keep control of presenting and getting passed issues it might favor. The House has over 400 seats, not the much more manageable 100 in the senate (where, of course, the vice-president is the tie-breaking vote…and she’s currently a democrat). If the House goes democratic, by even one vote, which is becoming unlikely, then the democrats will have a less difficult time simply because the expected ‘wave of red’ has turned into a wave of blue. That wave of blue is because of only a very few things.
Donald Trump is the major reason. His favored candidates almost all went down in failure. Trump’s form of populism, a shaded form of cultism or authoritarianism, was rejected, no matter how the results may be measured for political effect. America remains, and is, likely to remain very pro-democracy and invested in the closely monitored and expressed honesty of its well inspected and managed elections. The second huge, but mostly silent. factor in this move by the public to support the democratic party, is a result of the Supreme Court’s decision to abolish Roe V. Wade. The women across the country didn’t make much of hue and cry about the fact that they were going to turn out in mass to oppose the denial of what they see and saw as their rights. They did turn out in huge numbers, and their vote was combined and entwined with blaming Donald Trump for that Supreme Court decision. The skewed and difficult to analyze local results of this election remain to be seen.
Ron Johnson’s renewed role as a senator in Wisconsin (he barely scraped by) is minimized by the democratic nature of the senate composition. The role of the renewed governor, Evers, is enhanced, but to unknown amounts or effect. Nothing will much change in Wisconsin, except maybe the pick-up trucks flying Trump stickers and flags will completely disappear as Trump slowly sinks into a political ooze of his own making. Trump’s future in American politics is likely to be aborted, and whether Wisconsinites see this as a good or bad thing may well become irrelevant. The House is going to be very close and Trump is again running for president. Some entertainment coming.
