Some (I think) rather obvious conclusions to draw from the election results and for that matter, the whole of the cycle.
1: The supposed mainstream media is no longer the dominant Force. They squandered that position trying to pursue their own political goals. (You do know that the legacy media is well over 90% Democrat, right?) A quick example. The Atlantic, a publication long bereft of credibility, came up with an article saying “America has an Anti-MAGA majority” I can’t think of a better example right now, of how out of touch the mainstream media has become. But of course that publication is not alone. Collectively, the legacy media spent months telling us on a daily basis how close all of this was going to be which is exactly what this race was not. It was not close. They covered for Biden for 5 years…. yes, even before the 2020 election, refused to follow up on evidence of vote fraud, refused to follow up on who was responsible for the long list of Biden Administration screw ups, Then, they aided and abetted the replacement of Biden without publicly admitting why they did that, ignoring the fact that everyone could see what was what. The podcasts and blogs did a more accurate job of reporting current events, and the momentum of news-gathering is now moving in that direction…. and I have doubts that trend will ever be reversed.
2: The dominance of big money in politics is over. We’ve been told for years and years and years that money is the dominant factor in who wins an election. Harris was the first presidential candidate to spend over a billion dollars to promote her candidacy, and she lost to a candidate who spent far less. Let that point sink in. The Democrats have been railing against big money donors for generations, but if you look at the money spent versus the vote counts, you’ll see that the majority of her billion dollars did not come from Joe and Jane average, but from Big Money.
3: Charges of sexism, racism, misogyny, etc etc etc don’t make any difference anymore. Not really.Call it the party that cried “sexism, racism, misogyny,” if you like. Remember, Marx told his followers to charge your opponent with what you’re doing. So did Saul Alinsky. What this election uncovered, make no mistake, is that the real source of sexism, racism, misogyny, etc etc etc, is Democrats. Think, now….we were told, as one proof among many, that the reason that we weren’t voting for Harris was because she’s a black woman. In fact, the real racism was coming from the Democrats who told us that they were voting for Harris because she was a black woman. Funny, how actual competence never entered the discussion. We were told MAGA was racist, and sexist. Yet looking at the wide variety of people at MAGA rallies, show that claim is the poisonous nonsense it is. (Don’t bother looking for such evidence in the legacy media or on the bigger search engines…. see point 1. )
4: As the election numbers are analyzed, they increasingly show that this nation is not nearly as divided as some would have us believe. The kind of thumping the Dems took the other day, can only happen when there are a large number either currently or formerly registered Democrats, who gave up on the Democrats. The hard truth for the Democrats is, that these are people the Democrat party pushed away. After generations of being told that the Republicans and specifically Donald Trump are responsible for what divisions there are in the country, the judgment of the American voter is that it’s the Democrats and the never Trumper GOP establishment (Which in reality are very much the same thing) that have been causing the division. The voters pushed away the myth of division. I have been saying now for nearly 25 years on this blog that there is nothing that will unify the American people faster and more solidly than Democrats with government power in their hands… against the Democrats. What we have all seen this week is the loudest affirmation yet of that concept. You’d think this might cause a period of introspection among the left…. but no. (I’ll speak out that at some future time, I’m sure)
5: Voter ID: There are 15 states in this country which at the moment, do not require identification for voting. Harris won 13 of them. That’s that pretty much speaks for itself. Now that we have majority in both houses of Congress and the president who will sign such a bill it’s time to mandate a picture ID from every voter in a federal election. What the states do individually is their own concern and they will survive or not based on their policies. . But the federal elections should be so protected and I expect it will happen in the first 6 months of the new year.
