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Whistling Past the Graveyard
Is it possible this election result is exactly what we need to get past some of the divisiveness in our politics?
Work with me here. As things stand right now, it appears we’ll have a President Biden/Harris, with a Republican Senate and a narrower margin in the Democratic House (and a hopefully reliable Supreme Court).
It’s a very different situation than if Biden had swept in with coattails in the House and Senate, or if Trump had expanded on his Electoral College vote from 2016. Neither party can claim a mandate for, well, anything really. With Congress divided, neither party will be able to push through anything too stupid. The situation will almost demand compromise and working with the opposite party.
Maybe if we can get a year or two of the Congress actually working as a legislative body to do the dirty political work of compromise instead of just demonizing each other and screaming “racist” and “extremist” at the other side, we can drain some of the poison from the system.
Yes, I know, I’m a naïve Pollyanna.
But maybe this is really one last golden chance to save the American Experiment from flushing itself down the drain.
Published in General
I read that the pause in voting allowed for Demo-rats to calculate how many votes they needed to fabricate to insure a Biden victory. If they get away with it, we are as you said a Banana Republic.