And They Did !!!

I wrote two days ago that the hun­gry ingrates would turn out and vote against the Democratic par­ty, just to fol­low some inane cus­tom that the pres­i­dent and par­ty cho­sen a mere two years pri­or should be reined in by a con­gress run by the oppos­ing par­ty. https://​mike​beck​les​.com/​t​h​e​-​h​u​n​g​r​y​-​i​n​g​r​a​t​e​s​-​w​i​l​l​-​o​n​-​t​u​e​s​d​a​y​-​t​u​r​n​-​o​u​t​-​t​o​-​b​i​t​e​-​t​h​e​-​h​a​n​d​s​-​t​h​a​t​-​f​e​d​-​t​h​em/
I was right. Do I pre­fer where the coun­try is today based on what hap­pened yes­ter­day as opposed to what the talk­ing heads pro­ject­ed? You bet. But as a prag­mat­ic observ­er, it is dif­fi­cult for me to try to spin a loss as a win as the Democrats and pun­dit­ry class has been gid­di­ly doing.
I total­ly get that when you are start­ing as the Democrats did, believ­ing that Republicans were going to win upward of 50 seats in the house, retake the sen­ate and clean their clocks in gov­er­nor’s and local races, the mud­dy opaque results of November 8 can be spun as a win of sorts.

As I have said in this medi­um time and again, no one should lis­ten to the blovi­at­ing pun­dit­ry of the talk­ing heads that dom­i­nate cable chan­nels as they dis­cuss polling data that is prov­ing to be less and less reli­able with each pass­ing cycle.
Despite the vague­ness of pre-elec­tion polling and the froth­ing mouths of the tele­vi­sion talk­ing heads who, for months, talked the econ­o­my into a reces­sion even as American busi­ness­es added hun­dreds of thou­sands of jobs each month to the work­force. And despite the same group run­ning their mouths about crime and gas prices, the vot­ers decid­ed that the impor­tant thing to them were the things impor­tant to them, not what the blovi­at­ing pun­dit­ry class said was important.
My dis­con­tent with the results notwith­stand­ing is not about the rights of vot­ers to make a dis­tinc­tion between the things they view as impor­tant to them indi­vid­u­al­ly but their feal­ty to prece­dent, which caused them to not route the Republican par­ty from any lead­er­ship posi­tions that the par­ty would need a com­plete reformation.

I believe what Donald Trump and the Republican par­ty did to the coun­try after Trump lost the elec­tions in 2020 was con­se­quen­tial enough for the elec­torate to say we have the final say; you will not get away with this.
The vot­ers had that oppor­tu­ni­ty to make that state­ment, and they failed, choos­ing their race, prece­dent, and feal­ty to a par­ty and a man over their patri­ot­ic duty to the nation.
I can­not in good con­science praise such a cow­ard­ly elec­torate when it failed to deliv­er a resound­ing state­ment in a sit­u­a­tion so con­se­quen­tial. A peo­ple can­not claim to love their coun­try when the foun­da­tion­al prin­ci­ples on which the same nation was built were attacked to demol­ish the very foun­da­tion of said prin­ci­ples and still cast a vote for the par­ty that attempt­ed such treason.
Whether one vote on issues is irrel­e­vant, we can say we look at can­di­dates indi­vid­u­al­ly. Still, if a can­di­date ran on the Republican tick­et, that can­di­date is a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the trea­son that the repub­li­can par­ty and Donald Trump attempt­ed on January 6^th, 2021.
Therefore, any can­di­date for office on the Republican tick­et should be seen as an offense to the sen­si­bil­i­ties of all patri­ot­ic Americans. Regardless of our polit­i­cal dif­fer­ences, there should be no tol­er­ance for any per­son who would pick up arms against their own coun­try, and it is time that we begin to deal with those peo­ple as the trai­tors they are.

The crimes that Donald Trump and the Republicans , com­mit­ted against the nation should have been a dis­qual­i­fi­er. It should have cre­at­ed an earth-shat­ter­ing tsuna­mi that swept Republicans from office from the Atlantic to the pacif­ic shore.
Added to Republican crimes was the total­i­tar­i­an pow­er play by the right-wing supreme court, whose last three addi­tions, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amey Coney Barrett, lied to sen­ate screen­ers before being ele­vat­ed to the court, then vot­ed to take away the rights Americans have enjoyed for 49 years.
The supreme court was intend­ed to safe­guard the rights of Americans, not remove rights the peo­ple enjoy. Instead, five unelect­ed right-wing bureau­crats gut­ted Roe in the Dobbs decision.
When the total­i­ty of the threat the nation faces from Donald Trump, the Republican par­ty, and its func­tionar­ies on the supreme court, the elec­tion results should have been a blue wave that destroyed the Republican par­ty this morning.
Not some opaque and mud­dy deci­sion that will give ammu­ni­tion to the ene­mies of democ­ra­cy to fur­ther divide the country.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er honoree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.