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Interesting thing is GOP will likely get 52 or 53 Senate seats in Jan, 2023 which will start a ten year hold on the Senate, at minimum. The map this year is the most favorable to liberals in the Senate; 2024 and 2026 are Senate maps which will see many more GOP seats added.
Plus, the GOP will undoubtably blow by the 242 seats the GOP held 1/2011. That will also enable, in all liklihood, a multi term GOP House majority.
And rcp projects 31 GOP governors 1/2023.
This election will leave our Grand Old Party in even stronger shape than we were 1/2011.
In 2021, the far left wing of the dim party read a 50/50 Senate and 8 seat House majority as a "mandate" to push absurd, detached woke policies like canceling drilling leases, spending additional trillions well after COVID had subsided and flooding the border open to 5 million+ illegal foreign invaders. They decided that 0.01% of the population had the right to inflict their wacky gender ideology on the rest of us. They really made the senile old fool occupying the White House think he was FDR or LBJ. They resisted and continued to resist any calls to moderate themselves until the final stretch of the midterm cycle, and even then it's clearly a gimmick to get gullible voters.
America is fundamentally NOT a woke progressive country. The woke progressives themselves are a small fraction of the democrat party yet they manage to open their foul mouths the widest. Why the entire party including moderates caved to them in 2020-2021, I do not know, but for that reason alone they absolutely deserve to be supremely punished on November 8.
Let the dems go the way of British Labour post-2019. Labour realized "woke" is NOT a winning ideology and is detested by a clear, massive majority of the population outside well-to-do urban enclaves and university towns. Now Labour has moderated itself and is once again a thoroughly electable party with a very realistic shot at winning the next General Election after the Tories recent buffoonery.
The dems, too, need a long period out of power to purge the woke wing and become electable moderates once again.
Oh boy, more gridlock. Just what our country needs. Wiser republicans have been ringing the alarm bell for their party but no one cares to listen. It's just all about electing extremists now. Government needs to work for all of us.
We sure could have used gridlock the past 21 months.
Would haved saved our nation a lot of current and future trouble.
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I feel like Bernie's rapid fall and Biden's ascendance in his place were D voters attempting to move the party towards the center. I do think Biden's legislative achievements have been aligned with the traditional D platform but he gives way too much lip service to the woke wing. In long run wokeism looks silly in the absence of a president Trump and in long run it likely goes away. At their core human beings believe in meritocracy as long as the least among us are taken care of.
The Dems might be too far gone to ever come back. They have been catering to the Far Left extremists for too long where everything is Doom and Gloom 24/7. What isn't Fascist to them is Racist. Biden is predicting the end of our Democracy if the Reps take the Senate and House. Where else can you go? How much further down that road when you have hit a wall of outrage?
Of course there always is the rinse and repeat cycle where they will back off their extreme anti American policies and for a time will become more centered but the Democrats seem to have short memories and they don't care much for History so they will return to the extreme again.
What really boggles the mind are the Millions of people that continue to vote for the Dems. How much evidence does one need to realize that what they are doing is not good? How many times can we be lied to?
The dems, too, need a long period out of power to purge the woke wing and become electable moderates once again.
You know how, once a diseased, unhealthy animal dies, it lies rotting, the vultures, coyotes, flies, worms, and bacteria consuming it until finally it's nothing but parched bones, ready to sink into the earth, resting in eternal darkness, forever insulated from the world of the living?
How is it that so many people in the positions of power are so damn wealthy. They make 175k per yr, yet so many are multimillionaires.
What an odd coincidence.
I like to give credit to both sides in this example...
1) Bob Menendez spent $6 million of his own money for his 2006 US Senate bid. Why would someone spend $6 million on a job that in 2006 paid $165k? Let's assume the perks/bennies give an assumed doubling of that salary, and we make the "revenue of employment" = $330k. Over a 6 year term, that's still a $4 million loss.
Or is it? Same Sen Menendez who went up against a slew of corruption charges, as if this is shocking, and never did get bounced, just "severely admonished" in the Senate. Question...where'd the money go, Bob?
2) Ted Stevens threw the most famous hissy fit in the history of the Senate in Oct 2005 when the Coburn amendment to the Highway Transportation bill threatened to kill two rather famous boondoggles in Stevens' home state of Alaska. One proposed bridge was to connect and benefit land owned by the Murkowski family, the other bridge, called Don Young's Way, was to connect...wait for it...Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport to land owned by...wait for it...Don Young's family.
So three Republican families shamelessly dividing up the federal pork grifted to the far and away #1 state of the 50 in federal pork per capita. Looks like being in the Senate might have bennies beyond salary, eh?
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I invite every voter, whether you cheer Red or Blue, to look up ANY rep or Senator. Literally any of them, and chase down the money trail of any project, bill, legislation, proposal, etc they got passionately behind. Skip past the rhetoric and follow that trail. The phrase "both sides do it" will make way more sense if you do. And do not retreat to people like Ron Paul, because he's an OG "big government libertarian" in the mold of Ronald Reagan. Check the record for Paul and earmarks back in 2011 when the Republicans put a moratorium on earmarking. He has a lot of inconvenient truth the "freedom" and "liberty" caucuses would like you to not know.
Do you see what Elon is doing over at Twitter? This is how the vast majority of Americans feel about the woke crowd. They are annoying and need to be shown the door. The “let that sink in” act and buying Twitter was a middle finger to the wokies.
How the rest of the Democratic Party can sit back while these blithering idiots take control of their Party is odd. Just tells me mainstream media and big tech is funding the idiots. I have my suspicions why but that’s a topic for another day.
Do you see what Elon is doing over at Twitter? This is how the vast majority of Americans feel about the woke crowd. They are annoying and need to be shown the door. The “let that sink in” act and buying Twitter was a middle finger to the wokies.
How the rest of the Democratic Party can sit back while these blithering idiots take control of their Party is odd. Just tells me mainstream media and big tech is funding the idiots. I have my suspicions why but that’s a topic for another day.
Great, spot on post.
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