Posted on 11/10/2022 5:30:52 AM PST by cotton1706
US democracy, which almost buckled two years ago, just delivered a perfect reflection of a polarized nation that mistrusts its leaders and isn’t ready to unite on a new path.
Tuesday’s midterm elections gave Americans two more years to collectively decide what they really want by likely ushering in a divided government that is certain to be acrimonious but will prevent Democrats or Republicans from engineering a major ideological shift. It also scrambled the terrain of the early 2024 presidential race, with President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump both moving toward new campaigns that much of the country appears not to want.
The GOP appears to be crawling agonizingly slowly toward the 218 seats it needs to claim the speaker’s gavel, signaling that voters may have ended Biden’s big-spending progressive agenda. CNN has not projected control of the House or Senate, with the upper chamber hanging by a thread as races in two Democratic-held seats remain too early to call and a third advanced to a December runoff.
But the election deprived the GOP of the massive red wave that it had predicted. A wafer-thin House Republican advantage would be volatile as extreme lawmakers would wield disproportionate power in the conference. A few defections by moderates could, meanwhile, end the party’s capacity to pass bills.
Divided government would also mean two years of dysfunction, bitterness, fiscal cliffs and debt showdowns between a Republican House and the Democratic White House. Token talk of bipartisan cooperation won’t last long. Even if Democrats somehow manage to cling to the House as final results trickle in, they’d also lack the leeway to pass nation-changing laws. And whoever wins the Senate majority, the chamber will effectively be split down the middle and locked in an angry stalemate. Like America itself.
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Compared to what, propaganda boy ?
And we don't have turmoil and acrimony now?!
No, we're not ready to become a Marxist $hithole. Well, half of us aren't... the other half is ideologically broken.
Unleash? WTF have the last two years been as Biden tanks the economy and divides the nation even further?
Or just plain ignorant
The counts will start running 80 to 90 percent Democrat. They won’t give up Congress or the governorship of Arizona. What’s to stop them?
Recession was inevitable.
A Depression is quite possible under the BidenIdiot Regime.
The Midterms were just candles on an inevitability cake.
There is but one decision that must be made.
Everything and everybody progressive must be destroyed.
There can be no coexistence.
How is it a stalemate with the house turned over and a likely senate turnover?
“Turmoil and acrimony”, otherwise known as gridlock, which is generally a very good thing.
“How is it a stalemate with the house turned over and a likely senate turnover?”
When Democrat power is opposed, they consider that a stalemate.
Thise who think we will have a good election in 2024 seem to think that things are going to stay the same.
We may very wellbe at war with China. And that will mean that we possibly will see a CHina invasion of our West Coast. Its no joke.And we alsomay have a nuclear war. Biden has invited this aggresion from China by weakening AMerica.
So people talk about 2024 election as if the world is going to stand still. We need to spend big on the military ....NOW.
I don’t think China has the capability to invade the West Coast, but if they did they would find many who would welcome them.
I have heard NOTHING of the military vote. Did they even allow it?
The GOP winning the House and possibly the senate has saved democracy.
I will argue “not so”
Until the progressives are exterminated, there is no win. There is no salvation, there is only temporary respite.
So long as New York City, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle... the City States, control America, there is no salvation from the progressive cancer
The cities will always be rat infested in our lifetimes. I hope the current trend to reduce office space and city locations will enable people to escape these rat holes and become better citizens.
There is only one way to bring the country together, and that is with a Trump/DeSantis win in 2024. Such a win will usher in a new political dynamism base on America First priorities of improving the lot of middle-class, working Americans.
In short, the Deep State plan is to limit MAGA gains first in the GOP, and then in the Congress. So if the GOP is controlled again by RINOs like McConnell and McCarthy, the power of RINO McC squared, they will do nothing as usual and fiddle while Rome, the Republic, burns like Nero did. The result will be that the Dems will blame the GOP in 2024 for the failures of the Bidet Regime which the GOP was too fickle to actually fight. So, the first order of battle is to elect a MAGA Speaker of the House who will 1) investigate and take action on election fraud, including refusing to recognize fraud tainted election results, and 2) using the power of the purse to shut down the USPS until the mail in ballot fraud is reformed. All of that can be done, the only question is does the GOP have the backbone to do it?
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