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THE APPROACHING POLITICAL TSUNAMI
The water recedes and continues to recede as the unseeable, unbearable, and utterly devastating wave sweeps fast and deadly to a shore lined with people hoping for one result or another. The first sign of this wave, about to subsume America’s leadership shores was the rise of Taylor Swift mania. The youth of America are gathering and have chosen an entertainment figure to represent brightness and good across the land, regardless of reality. Taylor gathers before her, time after time, more people at her concerts than have ever been brought together in one place by any political leader in the nation’s history and she’s supporting a very liberal cause.
The second indicator of this coming wave, and one that should be much more evident to those living in Walworth County, the county where the Geneva Shore reports from and issues its weekly hard copy newspaper and daily weather and news presentations by video, was the recent result of the referendums put forward at the primary elections last week. Those two referendums were written and presented by the state’s Republican House of Representatives and Senate members. Those referendums would have changed the acceptance and distribution of emergency funding that would be forthcoming to aid Wisconsin citizens suffering the calamitous effects of physical disasters. Currently, and following the voting, the governor is the single entity or person who can approve and pay out the money the federal government makes available to states (including Wisconsin, when needed). The referendums would have forced the payments to be made to the House and Senate for their distribution instead of the governor.
The GSR supported negative voting on both referendums, not because of political affiliation but because of the time it might take for a large number of representatives and senators to decide who might get what funding and then how long it would take for the suffering parties to get it. However, the overwhelming results of the election, with fifty-eight percent of the vote being “no,” is a harbinger and warning of the liberal wave that’s coming. The vote was too large to be all about the process. The vote was about the political tsunami coming.
The third indicator of this wave is all about President Biden pulling himself out of the race and throwing his support behind Kamala Harris. That move should have been met with some acceptance by the public in general, but it wasn’t. It was met by the kind of overall building enthusiasm and goodwill that hasn’t been a part of American politics for many years and the mass media, the co-joined nightmare of America’s primary ‘voice’ is befuddled because they cannot report the news in such a way as to influence the direction of that coming wave.
The GSR does not serve as a predictor of political results and change. The newspaper has no polling function, and the staff doesn’t believe most of the polls that are published either. The GSR is mostly about what’s going on locally, and what the people who live, reside, work, vote and hang around Geneva Lake might need or want to know. National political reporting does not have much of a place in the newspaper or the outfit’s video presentations, but every once in a while, the editorial staff figures things out, in their opinion, that need expressing, and this ‘tsunami’ is one of those things. The water’s receding…seek higher ground.
