Congrats, I feel, are in order.
I will probably go to sleep without knowing *for sure* the fate of the Senate, but I will go ahead and offer my Congratulations for their hard fought win. It seems that my predictions were, well, not on the money this time around. Can't win 'em all.
They won, and we lost. Such is life.
You see...this was an important election. I don't think its sour grapes to say that I believe our country will be in a worse place tomorrow than it was today. No, I cannot deny that I believe that to be the truth.
But this election isn't the final election, whatever that might look like. It was one election. I have not spent much time ranting about it, because it didn't honestly bother me all that much. I suppose that is in part because I believe the sides have already been drawn, and our nation needs to decide if we are beyond saving or not. I don't believe there is a way to "solve" the current conflict, nor do I believe that there is a "way out", as if any one country encapsulated the current conflict.
You see...there is an ideological war being waged against the ideology of our civilization. We can choose to ignore it, but that won't make it go away. We can run from it...but that doesn't mean it won't come looking for us in the dark of the night.
And I think that reality will sink in...even if it costs us something in the present. And, when that reality DOES sink in...the party of action will be recalled to power, just as good old Winnie was called out of near retirement when the politics of appeasement were finally exposed for the brutal failure they are in the late 1930's.
And so...the Democrats control the House, and possibly the Senate.
Alright.
They won with promises of cures through the "Science" of Stem Cell research. They won with promises of "ending" the corruption of politics (this, coming from a party with leaders like Harry Reid, caught in a land scheme just last month...). They won with the promise of solving our international problems by getting us out of Iraq--that "Second Vietnam" they are so eager to denounce. Yes, they "won." And we lost.
They "won", after 4 elections in 6 years with a narrow margin. Not exactly a sweeping "Blue Wave", but who's keeping track?
Heh. I know, this sounds dramatic. Well, sometimes something as silly as politics is dramatic.
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Did you watch the HBO special "Hacking Democracy"?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7236791207107726851&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en-CA
I think the biggest issue today are the failures in Iraq and that the Republican party has been able to act without significant accountability checks for a long time now. Personally, I'm happy this was only a midterm election and that only 1/3 the Senate was up for grabs -- otherwise I think there might have been a major Blue Wave...
We thank you for your congratulations.
Seriously though, the Dems aren't terribly happy with it either. In order to pull it off, they had to run far more moderate candidates than they would have liked. The next two years will be interesting, to say the least.
As for the pessimism - now you know how we've felt since 1994. :)
Yes...but, I'm right, so my pessimism is justified. :)
Besides...12 years is nothing when compared to the 50 years the Dems ran things before our sweep 12 years ago.
And, I might add, I don't think this is quite the same thing...the Dems won at the end of the second term of a President that has been vastly misrepresented, during a war that is being politicized all to hell, and by selling as much of the party to the middle as possible. When we won in 1994, just two years afer a crushing defeat of a fairly popular President, it was by proclaiming the strong presence of the Right Base.
There is barely a comparison to the campaign the Dems had to run to get power this time around.
The extreme Liberals represent the base of the Democratic party. To win they had to appeal, not to their base (as the Republicans do in order to carry the day) but to those that are not naturally of the same belief as the leaders of the party.
"Why is that?", you ask. I'll tell you.
Its because the nation is not what the leadership of the Democratic party contends it is. I give this new "Blue Wave" 4 years at the most...two if the Republicans get their act together and remember what, exactly, is was that people elected them to power for in the first place: CONSERVATIVISM.
Interesting: I just heard a fascinating interview on NPR with... oh, some famous conservative whose name I now cannot remember about how unconservative the Republicans have become (especially in matters of government power and economics). I'd wondered if there were any classical conservatives breaking ranks from the current strangeness of the GOP (seriously, try explaining to a classroom of AP students why they should learn the technical tenets of conservativism when no one's really practicing them). Guess there are.
It seems kind of like what happened to the Dems a few years back as the party swung further toward the center.
Indeed.
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