candycorn
Diamond Member
Truth.A schizoid, lazy, willfully ignorant, capricious electorate who vote based on emotion and incorrect perception rather than facts and the truth – that goes when both Democrats and Republicans prevail.
Not so sure about that... "the same voters"? No--I don't think so. But the ebb and flow is there from one party to the next for the same reason. I think the "me" generation is as much to blame as any other single source. Nobody wants to sacrifice. It's a foreign concept in 2022 America. And they listen to politicians of different ideologies that tell them they don't have to. Whats worse, they are so busy demonizing each other, only a glancing interest is paid to the "big" issues that face our nation.The voters turning control of the House over to the Democrats in 2018 because they hated Trump is the reason why those same voters are giving control of the House to Republicans this year.
We don't have a strategy as an electorate and therefore, we don't have a strategy as a nation. One would hope that we could all agree that healthcare that is available to everyone (the ACA) is a good thing; more healthy Americans is better than more sick Americans. We can't. One would hope that we could all agree that having more educated persons is a good thing (Biden and the DNC plan to offer community college to everyone); more educated Americans is better than fewer educated Americans. We can't. One would think that of all of the alternative energy sources out there as of this writing, nuclear remains the most viable option for delivering the power we need and being most environmentally friendly--while having been proven to be safe (or as safe as humankind can make it) over 60+ years use in the US Navy. We can't. One would hope that even the country bumpkin who works in a potato farm would understand that if his employer can sell his potatoes in more places, it would mean he would have more job security and get higher wages. Yet they are told that globalization is a bad thing designed to __________ (fill it in with whatever the latest myth is).
Yeah, the nearly guaranteed quadrennial shift from one vision for the nation to the other in the midterms is as puzzling as it is dangerous