Mid Terms and the political choices

One thing about being older is that I've lived long enough to see a lot of stuff. In this case elections

This time the GOP took a shellacking. Not the first time, for them or the dems. Party control tends to change like a pendulum swinging but not quite so regular. The last time the GOP got hammered like this & lost the senate bigly, it took 6 years for them to win a majority again. The house can flip much faster since every seat stands for election every 2 years

As I recall I think it was the 2010 election that after they won, the dems were crowing that they had won permanent majorities & the GOP would never win again

How'd that prediction work out for them?

What is new this time is the hostile takeover of the democrat party by the commies & islamists via teh DSA and the brain baked hate of the hard progressives. They're a minority but they're a very loud, particularly obnoxious bunch of spoiled people who simple are never happy. No matter what they get it's never enough & they just get louder & nastier

No, the country isn't dead. It is in danger but that's not really new either
 
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Stu Farish said:
Not the first time, for them or the dems. Party control tends to change like a pendulum swinging but not quite so regular. T
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Trouble is it usually overcorrects before it reverses it's travel and in this case :
Stu Farish said:
What is new this time is the hostile takeover of the democrat party by the commies & islamists via teh DSA and the brain baked hate of the hard progressives. They're a minority but they're a very loud, particularly obnoxious bunch of spoiled people who simple are never happy. No matter what they get it's never enough & they just get louder & nastier

No, the country isn't dead. It is in danger but that's not really new either
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Another problem is that the left has always had the teamwork figured out better than the right; at least that has been the case. Thank God we have the veto power and someone who knows how to use it 🙏. The thorn in the left's side will be the new commies which may help to divide them. If only the republicans can learn to be team players now. 🙏🙏
 
Stu Farish said:
One thing about being older is that I've lived long enough to see a lot of stuff. In this case elections
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Well your in good company I suppose as there are many on here whom seen and recall the same as you.
One could say they had it coming. Or the average person is just fed up with what they feel is hopelessness or despair at the current situation.
Here locally the Republicans lost the super majority, actually barely did manage to hold onto a majority at the state level. Part of that is for all the same reason that I "think" is the same reason as happened in Texas, which actually shocked me in some respects. Not that Arkansas and Texas was always a "red" state and I seem to recall both being a blue stronghold for a number of years as in several decades that reached into the realm of a century.
The 1.7 number yeah sounds about right by the number of seats that California lost. Makes one wonder if states could just close their borders. After all those "individuals" screwed up the state they fled from, and aren't smart enough to change their ways to prevent their new home from getting ruined by the same stupid choices they made. We had our fair share of leaving Californians as well don't know the numbers and I sure it's way smaller than Texas absorbed.
 
The other thing I find EXTREMELY hilarious is the number of folks whom say or think that the Bush's are Texans... LMAO at that one... being a oil man doesn't make anyone a Texan. Daddy Bush is from New England, and none of his offspring sprung up from there (Texas).
 
Sgt_Mike said:
Here locally the Republicans lost the super majority, actually barely did manage to hold onto a majority at the state level. Part of that is for all the same reason that I "think" is the same reason as happened in Texas, which actually shocked me in some respects. Not that Arkansas and Texas was always a "red" state and I seem to recall both being a blue stronghold for a number of years as in several decades that reached into the realm of a century.
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Yep, the Dems fell from power with Ann Richards in 1995.
Sgt_Mike said:
Makes one wonder if states could just close their borders. After all those "individuals" screwed up the state they fled from, and aren't smart enough to change their ways to prevent their new home from getting ruined by the same stupid choices they made. We had our fair share of leaving Californians as well don't know the numbers and I sure it's way smaller than Texas absorbed.
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I always said the wall was misplaced when they built it; should have taken a 90* turn to the north at the California border.
 
hm1996 said:
I always said the wall was misplaced when they built it; should have taken a 90* turn to the north at the California border.
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I dunno maybe the areas that they ACTUALLY control should be walled off... L.A , San Francisco, Sacramento, and the few outliers that they actually control. Majority of the state doesn't actually lean the same way . Or didn't when I was there in the early 80's. maybe they do now IDK.

Having grown up in Ga. Ala, the Carolinas and a few other southern states, yeah they have always been a blue strong hold... even when they was supposedly "red" . All one has to do is actually listen, none of those states are "red" by any means... nor have they ever been in my life time. Sure they may elect some whom claim to be a certain party... but the proof isn't in the pudding. The southern states have always been blue. And actually won't truly be surprised to see them shift back that way.
 
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