Another election is behind us. Enjoy the relative peace for about another six months until the 2016 campaigns kick in.
Yes, I voted. I’m of the opinion that if you don’t
vote you can’t bitch about the results and God knows how I love to bitch.
Does it really matter who wins the Senate when the
choice is so pathetic? Republicans are
evil, Democrats are spineless, and they’re all blowing Wall Street.
Republican supporters can gloat today, but they
shouldn’t take the election results to mean that the majority of the country’s
populace supports their anti-middle class, anti-minority, anti-woman agenda. The
GOP won because the majority of our citizens either didn’t care about voting or
were disenfranchised by new Republican-backed voting laws that made it
impossible for them to do so. Not
surprisingly, most of the disenfranchised were people of color. The good news
is our brown brothers and sisters will soon outnumber you old, white bastards.
Then we have the people who consistently vote
against their own best interests and wonder why their lives are shit: Those who voted for Republican governors who
have fought to prevent them from access to Medicaid. Pissing blood? Good luck with that. Those who voted for Walker in Wisconsin,
despite his blatant assault on the middle-class, because why should teachers,
fire and police have decent pensions after they’ve spent their lives serving an
ungrateful public? And what’s with those
who voted for McConnell in Kentucky? Has
there ever been a bigger turd in the punch bowl?
For those who believe this was a win for the “real
patriots,” think again. The big winners were the international corporate
interests that have no allegiance to flag or country, only to shareholders. You
might as well pledge your allegiance to G.E’s corporate logo.
But now the fun begins. Remember all the whining
by Democrats over Republican filibusters and obstructionism? “Tit for Tat,” baby. Say what you will about the Nixon years, but
we had a Congress that actually worked together. We’ll never see that again. Not in my lifetime anyway.
For those of you who remember my older blog posts
where I was so passionately political, that torchlight has gone out. I’m just happy to live in California where
sanity, for the most part, prevailed.
