The Mid Term Election Madness

Monday, October 18, 2020

At 74 my memory of past nutsy mid-term national elections has faded. But a cursory look backword does not reveal the level of madness of the 2010 mid-term elections. Simply, the resentment against Washington and President Obama is mostly about the economy. 'Why didn't you give us jobs?", Mr. President seems to be the very loud undertone to every political persuasion from far right to far left. The Republicans lie and say demeaning things about the President. The Tea Party utters the most ridiculous and strangely Nazi style prescriptions for how to run a central government. And, as the case with every re-election period, even  the Democrats are both divided and trying to distance themselves from Obama.

The President has achieved much in two years to correct socio-economic imbalances, re-regulate the banks and investment houses that got away with murder during the Bush era and still think it's a matter of time before things go back to where they were before they caused the crash. And there is health reform, though seriously compromised by the health insurance industry, at least a stepping stone to get things under control. And other important policy successes, not legislative, dealing with international problems. Peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians may be a fantasy, but at least the important issues are on the table and accomodations or none are choices that have to be openly made.

The real stumbling block is truth. No-one at either political extreme seems to know what that is. I wonder somtimes whether the Republicans and the Tea Part have any idea they have come to believe  their own lies. I also wonder whether the Democrats running for Congress have any idea that their distance from Obama, which they choose to exercise to coincide with their districts' political leanings, is about abandoning the very serious political goals Obama erected to change the entire nature of politics at the federal level. Most of the old white guys still think that the President is out of touch with their reality of smoke-filled rooms, merely an image of many years ago, and decisions made without any tranparency at all. The fact of the matter is that they are out of touch to the extent that the electorate doesn't really want of that anymore and instead would prefer tackling the economic problems of employent or unemployment.

So, though the outcome of the mid-term elections ostensibly is a prescription for the President's second term aspirations, it is more about the state of madness and misrepresentation that have been fomented from all sides of the political spectrum. But that is not the level of subtletly the media would engage. So, we are looking at rather the panoply of lies, both big and small, put in action by both the left and the right. For the unsophisticated and/or confused voter class, these distinctions are too subtle. So, we are left with how the winds blow when the nut class right wing takes their seats in the next Congress. Beware of statement bearing too many lies and little truth.

Comments

[scentsy starter kit]

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there is health reform, though seriously compromised by the health insurance industry, at least a stepping stone to get things under control

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though seriously compromised by the health insurance industry

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the President is out of touch with their reality of smoke-filled rooms, merely an image of many years ago

[Evering2010]

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