Don’t Throw Away Your Midterm Vote
How the Midterm Election Can Heal the Unrest in Our Nation
The midterms are coming up here pretty quick and that may be why there seems to be a sense of unrest somewhere in the breeze. I kind of think that’s to be expected. The last couple of years have been fully packed with all manner of exciting stuff. We’ve experienced floods, earthquakes and even volcanos. Sea levels are rising. There’s a political fight over global warming. There has never been much to fight about other than when we’re going to address the problem. Not ever has there really been an argument about if we were going to have to address droughts, more and stronger hurricanes, unpredictable weather(not that the weather has ever been predictable), and added to that constant load the Russian guy is swearing he’s going to nuke Ukraine which would make even good weather dangerous.
There are other problems, too. For example, we really need more hands to make the economy work well. But we’re pretty much confused about whether we should let other people in the door. Especially the door at the southern border. There are those who champion bringing people across the border to help with the chores, but we’re not so sure about families and weddings and those sorts of events which are stressful under normal circumstances. It’s as though we just never knew that there are more brown people in the world than there are white people. Of course, we all make those problems worse by thinking we understand something that we don’t. That always screws things up for me, at least.
Then we were all visited by a little nermy called Covid and some of his kin. That stressed a lot of folks out so bad they lost touch with reality somewhere along the journey. Sometimes that little nermy left a mark on our thinking when it came round to visit, and you know that marks on your thinking are not at all pleasant and can be pretty damned stressful. Some folks got caught up in the excitation that we call Covid and interlocked with some of the strangest things. Some folks got things turned around in their heads about what was real in those most stressful days. They wouldn’t even protect themselves. They just could not handle the idea of looking up, I suppose. Although that form of protection proved fatal many times, it is still hard to be callous toward those folks. I think they just overloaded with stresses and refused to deal with any more.
At about the same time there were a lot of folks who couldn’t deal with the additional stress of the rampant political chaos which surrounded The 45th. It was easier for these kinds of folks to embrace unfashionable messages from a non-existent personage and make it up for yourself from there on out. You can’t really blame them because everyone was simply looking for a little something that was stable during that chaotic time. The 45th even banked on that nostalgia to become The 45th. He hasn’t been alone in that illusion. There are 45ths to the nth power running for political office this midterm. I have to wonder if any of those wannabe’s have considered the direction of the political breezes this fall.
I don’t know from how people vote, but I do pay attention to significant events. Kansas voting to leave abortion alone was a significant event. Dark Brandon on the rise is a significant event. Dark has done a couple of pretty amazing magic tricks. He has gotten the Senate to pass legislation that you couldn’t have gotten odds on in Vegas. He got a bill to reduce carbon by 50% of 2005 levels by 2030. He got a bill to improve bridges and roads and to get the internet to nearly everyone. He got a bill to support the needs of veterans. Oh, Dark has some baggage too. There were a lot of folks who were not happy about pulling out of Afghanistan. They have reason to be unhappy. The world is unhappy. But he did pull us out of that quagmire. It might have been a strategic mistake and it may have been brilliant. History will tell that tale. History will also have to let us know how Dark did with inflation because at the moment it is getting better in that gas is less, but history will have to pass or fail on this one too. But you do have to admire how Dark does have that slowly dashing worldliness to him. I don’t mind experiencing a more stable vibe than the other dude gave off. It’s probably those aviators.
Meanwhile, in the Land of the Creeping Python, there seems to be some serious trouble brewing in the Lord’s manor. It seems some documents were being housed there without their owner’s knowledge. The rightful owner lost all patience and visited the Lord’s manor and removed the documents and then told the Lord of The Manor. His lordship was not amused. It has not helped that Vice Lord in Waiting Eric has remembered the words to Humpty Dumpty. But that’s not the worst of it. Judges, for the most part, have not been empathetic with the Lord’s plight. They are being fair but they are also being judges. Well, there was that one who thought she owed the Lord for previous kindnesses directed her way. She got in hot water over it but it’s understandable. The big guy needed her, after all.
So how does any of this relate to the midterm elections? Remember all those Jr. 45ths? They’re all Republican. For some reason the stresses of the last few years have affected folks with a conservative bent in a way that kind of elicits an almost rebellious character that is set in his or her ways and can not tolerate change and especially not at this rate. This is just too chaotic and so they have to hold on to something known and comforting. I can’t say they’re wrong for that. But I could say that stress doesn’t seem to be user friendly to a mind set on an imaginary non-changing reality. Not only is it stressful that the reality we all see is always in flux but that we have imagined reality to be unchanging could be described as instant maturation and unimaginably distressing.
That is a reason I do so hope that folks will turn out and vote blue in this upcoming midterm. It isn’t that I don’t want Republicans to hold office, it’s more that I hope Democrats can hold the country together for another two years. Maybe if we practice exchanging information with folks other than our folks there is a decided possibility that we can show how great America already is. I don’t think anyone either red or blue would turn down an exchange of information with someone of the opposition party. Fellas, you could think about it like learning a new language. I think we could all take a page from Joe Manchin’s playbook. He held off the entire Democratic Party over voting the filibuster away. But he understood that in order to reduce stress there must be an ordered balance of power. It might be really important to try to balance the energy eddies swirling around the collectively shared mind of the voting public. It appears more blue than red to me.
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