The War of Words and The Silent Majority
According to Ballotpedia, as of 2022, the USA voters can be said to be evenly split at about 33% between the Democrats, Republicans, and Independents registered voters.
Current Government rack-up
According to the Voting and Registration Data, from the “US Census Bureau:
“MAY 2, 2023 — Voter turnout for the 2022 U.S. congressional elections was the second highest for a nonpresidential election year since 2000, with 52.2% of the citizen voting-age population participating. And registration rates were the highest for a midterm election since 2000, with 69.1% of the citizen voting-age population registered to vote, up 2.2 percentage points from 66.9% in 2018, according to Current Population Survey (CPS) data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.”
The partisan fighting has been visible since Trump was elected. Apparently he was the lightning rod that brought a very strong undertow to the surface. Now, the government is totally inward-looking, and whichever party is in charge is going after the other party, and the people are happy spending their time showing how “the other guys” are wrong. That, I must add, is saying it nicely.
The 21st-century “Governments” are split in partisan fights that have nothing to do with what our Constitution and Declaration of Independence specify. Articles that discuss the restoration of “our” government abound.
“How to Restore the Founding Fathers’ Vision for Congress” The Constitution — Each year on September 17 we commemorate its creation and signing. Our founding fathers designed this document to be a national framework for our government, serving as a guideline for balancing governmental powers and ensuring our governmental system functions properly to perform its responsibilities to the American people.
This is what we are doing instead:
That is leading the country’s fate to be decided by the “Independent” voters and the partisans looking for the narrow margin that can lead to a win.
The War of Words
The war of words is eagerly and, in some cases, fanatically being fought between the Democrats and Republican extremist Partisans. They use every excuse in the book and most of the words to describe rabidly what is wrong with “the other side.” It makes for vigilance and good writing. It does nothing for “the people” and our future generations.
One Basic Truth — When Congress faces an empty seat, because House or Senate career politicians leave their “guarded partisan” post, a “Mexican standoff” follows.
Mexican Standoff — “A confrontation where no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve victory.”
Another Truth follows — current seats in the House or Senate always go to the same party incumbent.
The Consequence of that Truth — Control of either the House or Senate is dependent on a small number of seats. In the Senate, there are two seats.
A lesson to be learned about the “Independent” Voters
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) served as Majority leader in the Senate from 2007–2021). The story of the change in leadership is a footnote in the Government “United States Senate History” page. The story in footnote 17 is fitting for how bitterly this “leadership” is fought by the career politicians in Congress.
Footnote 17: From January 3 to January 20, 2021, with Republicans holding a majority with 51 senators, Mitch McConnell served as the majority leader and Charles Schumer remained the minority leader. The run-off elections for both Georgia Senate seats held on January 5, 2021, resulted in Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff defeating incumbent Republican senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue (respectively). Following the swearing-in of Warnock and Ossoff on January 20, 2021, party division stood at 50–50, with 50 Republicans and 48 Democrats plus 2 Independents who caucused with the Democrats. On January 20, 2021, Democratic vice president Kamala Harris took office. Her tie-breaking vote established a Democratic majority in the Senate, making Charles Schumer the majority leader and Mitch McConnell the minority leader.
The 2022 midterm elections became a referendum on President Biden, who became President on January 20, 2021. The options the partisan representatives in government offered, were just as extreme as their voters. They started the war on words. The people who voted for them are just as blind as their leaders. The independents voted their minds, and that loss still stings with the Republican Radicals.
Radical Politics — Radical politics denotes the intent to transform or replace the fundamental principles of a society or political system, often through social change, structural change, revolution, or radical reform.
In Our case, Democrats and Republicans have become radical politicians, not looking for solutions to our common problems (like the DEBT) but how to “Control” our “Constitutional Republic.” They, in turn, have radicalized their followers. Too bad the only act of treason considered by the Law is an act of war against the United States.
It can be said that politicians are worried in order of priority: 1. Get reelected, 2. Control the government decision-making machine, 3. serve those who get them reelected, last and may be (~)4. their constituency.
After Kamala Harris broke the tie with her partisan vote, the Senate was won by Republicans in the midterms but the final results of the total outcome did not come in until December 2022 on a hard fought runoff election between Hershel Walker (R) and Raphael Warnock (D) in Georgia.
The 2022 Georgia Election vote brought 51.37% for Warnock and 48.63% for Walker. This win was totally enabled by a few cosmopolitan areas. The map by county shows 28 out of 159 voted for Democrat Warnock, while the remaining 131 counties voted for Walker. This sounds like a miracle if you read the story posted by “The New Yorker.” However, That same strategy is being followed for Texas as well.
The difference in the vote was 646,619 votes. As seen in the table there was a larger average of Republican voters (70.25%) as compared to Democrat Voters (62.51%). Further, there was a larger average of Republican voters in the 28 county area than there were Democrat voters in the 131 County area. However, not enough to offset the differences.
Rural areas are populated mainly with people who do not want or need “government interference” and want to keep the government at arm’s length. Cosmopolitan areas are mainly the opposite, they want a government to take care of them.
The Cosmopolitan of the 21st Century
Every government program created since the 1930s has been mainlined into society forever; this created an addiction of dependency comparable to a drug fix. For obvious reasons, this has never been changed.
In fact, MORE addictive programs were created by blindly stupid governments, and now we have an unpayable debt that grows on its own faster than our revenues due to the interest rates and lowering of our credit rating.
According to Marc Goldwein(details below), interest payments now rank fourth in spending, behind Social Security, Medicare and Defense.
- Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public on issues with significant fiscal policy impact. We have significant experience analyzing the cost and effects of federal policy that we hope will be helpful to the administration a
This is also happening in Texas. It is faster now that it has had a major influx of California and other Democrat states that lack real jobs or Survive in taxing the people more and more.
The YouTube clip may be true economically; however, politically, it is going from being a strong Republican State to becoming a Democrat state through the growth of the Cosmopolitan areas like Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin. All have Democrat Mayors, except Dallas (in September 2023, he switched parties to be a Republican in a Blue City).
Nationwide, Ballotpedia offers this Graph:
I know the universe is fickle at best, driven mainly by energy so far, with a growing menace known as entropy, and held together by a force we still don’t understand, gravity. Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institute, Stanford University, combined that knowledge with history to say:
Beware of the law of unintended Consequences: “The ancient Greeks taught us that arrogance brings payback, that nothing is sure in a fickle universe, that none of us can be judged successful and happy until we die, and that moderation and humility alone protect us from our own darker sides.”
The question we need to ask ourselves still is —
Can love of Country (we have history) and re-priming our National Identity (we did not get to be where we were before JFK’s assassination by fighting each other) reduce polarization and save us from the demons we are fighting?
