Stepping Back From the Ledge

No, I'm not suicidal, nor will I be.

I am disgusted and discouraged that an anti-Semitic, Marxist demagogue accused of spousal abuse and of being part of a summer camp where child abuse took place has been elected to the U.S. Senate. But I'm not as depressed as I was late last night. All hope is not lost.

In the other Georgia Senate race, an unimpressive trust fund socialist named Jon Ossoff also knocked off an incumbent Republican and will help the Democrats achieve a 50-50 Senate split, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaker.

First let me emphasize that neither of the incumbents, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, was very impressive. They had undistinguished records and also didn't seem to be natural campaigners with fire in the belly, as the expression goes.

One must wonder whether President Trump's Georgia rally on Monday night might have even had the opposite effect of what was intended. Yes, he probably rallied some otherwise potentially apathetic voters (although those would be few and far between if they're true conservatives). But because Trump could not help but slam the unfairness of the rigged election and take potshots at Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, it's possible many prospective GOP voters threw up their hands and figured, "What's the use?" They might have blown off voting as a lesson in futility.

Raffensperger, for his part, was like a Manchurian Candidate with his idiotic consent agreement reached with the egregious Stacey Abrams and the Georgia State Election Board in March 2020. The agreement watered down absentee ballot procedures. This was just as stupid as the Pennsylvania State Legislature agreeing with Pennsylvania's Secretary of State to an expansion and extension of mail-in ballots -- an agreement reached many months before the pandemic struck. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!

We don't know how aggressively the Democrats will attempt to ram-rod their leftist wish list down our throats. That list includes higher taxes; granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.; eliminating the filibuster; granting citizenship to 15-20 million illegal aliens plus opening up the immigration floodgates; stacking the Supreme Court; implementing the Green New Deal, a carbon tax and government healthcare (i.e., single payer); nationwide mandates for ballot harvesting and mail-in voting; price controls on drugs; and huge subsidies for green energy. Prices of gasoline, natural gas and electricity will definitely rise considerably. It's quite possible that literally tens of millions of people who vote Democrat don't even realize they're voting against their own interests when it comes to these cost-of-living staples.

Supposedly moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has stated he's not going to go along with all of the Democrats' ideas, including the filibuster. But he's as likely to cave as the disgraceful Bart Stupak did with Obamacare nearly 11 years ago. West Virginians, however, are a generally conservative lot. Perhaps if they threaten Sen. Manchin with a recall he'll show some restraint. At the very least, he'll know he's toast as far as getting re-elected should he go all-in on the Democrat plans (that is, IF he plans to run again in 2024).

I have learned my lesson in the past not to wallow too far or too long in pessimism. The Lord works in strange ways, and sometimes what seems like a horrible thing can actually result in some good things happening. The Republicans kicked butt in the 2010 House elections and the 2014 Senate elections after several years of overreach by Barack Obama and the Democrats. The Dems overplaying their hand could well backfire, this time, too.

Besides, a lot of variables may come up between now and the 2022 election, including but not limited to foreign crises, terrorism, health problems for certain senators, possible scandals forcing a member to step down, and maybe even some Democrat senators backing down from a full frontal assault because they know they'll lose their bid for re-election should they go all out for the Squad / Bernie / wokeism garbage. Many of these senators care more about feathering their own nest than dying for the cause.

The Republicans have a great chance to take back the House in November 2022, and might even have a chance to take the Senate EVEN IF D.C. and Puerto Rico become states. They just need to grow a pair and stop it with the Romney/Bush/Ryan/Boehner/Jeff Flake/Murkowski/Collins RINO crapola. Somehow, these dunderheads need to get it through their thick heads that it's stupid and foolish to play nicey-nice with Democrats and suck up to the corrupt mainstream media. As the irascible Michael Savage used to say about former House Speaker John Boehner, he'd sell out his vote for a free chicken dinner for his family and a case of Johnnie Walker.

The Democrats play for keeps. They're vicious, relentless, and totalitarian in nature. They've been a totalitarian party that doesn't think much of the U.S. Constitution for well over 150 years now. Keep in mind, this is the party of the Confederacy, slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, lynchings, Indian genocide, Japanese internment camps, the KKK, abortion, infanticide and a slew of other hideous policies and actions. Opposing them demands nothing less than no-holds-barred SMASHMOUTH.

If the idiot Republicans haven't learned their lesson by now, they're worse than worthless, and deserve to be sent out to pasture for the rest of their lives.

Comments

[T-Mo]

I like your train of thought!
I'll be the first to admit that sometimes I'm overly alarmist and pessimistic.
Time will tell.

[Keepontrucking]

Oh please. Ain't nothing gonna happen. Remember all the chicken-littling in 2008? Zilch. Remember the Democrat hysteria when Republicans won the Presidency, the House, and the Senate in 2016? Exactly, just fear-mongering and conspiracy-thinking.