So, apparently a Red wave has not drowned the nation, and that's a good thing.
As to my home state, the election results are welcome news...the executive offices and both chambers of the state house went blue, the 1st time in 40 years that the Republican firewall of the state senate will no longer serve as such. So, MI is a lot less the …
So, apparently a Red wave has not drowned the nation, and that's a good thing.
As to my home state, the election results are welcome news...the executive offices and both chambers of the state house went blue, the 1st time in 40 years that the Republican firewall of the state senate will no longer serve as such. So, MI is a lot less the color of a bruise today than it was yesterday, especially considering that all 3 ballot proposals passed, nullifying an early 20th century law making abortion in the state illegal (held in limbo since the fall of Roe by a court order) and also nullifying the effect of that fall by cementing reproductive rights in the state's constitution; making needed and sensible changes to state officeholder term limits, and finally instituting something in the way of meaningful financial reporting requirements for state office holders.
So, was this a Blue wave in the state? I don't think I'd call it that, though I'm sure a few D's would like to. I think it might better be characterized as a rising tide. And maybe it will be a sign to the state GoP that it's time to throw the crazy ass hats who've helmed and manned that ship of late over the side and find a new skipper and crew, one that knows how to obey the laws of common sense, common decency and perhaps has a modicum of regard for the common good as opposed to just their own. May not happen. Probably won't happen. But then, no one thought this would happen either.
Wave or tide, if you've got a fire burning and spreading along the shores of your democracy and headed for the heart of it, it doesn't really matter how the water gets there to put it out. Or what color it is. That it just gets there at all is far more important. Perhaps the tide that rolled in here yesterday is a reason for at least a bit of optimism as regards that fact.
Acknowledged as much with "Probably not." And I'm more than happy to keep on thumpin' on my end. But as you wrote yourself not all that long ago, while you (or I, for that matter) may not agree with or perhaps even like a lot of Rs - even in 'normal times' - we do, in fact, *need* a 'healthy' Republican party, lest the current 'good guys' fall into the same trap of self-interest from only having to answer to themselves. Hence, I really hope they get the message sooner rather than later. After all, 'hoping' doesn't cost me a darned thing. ;-)
Well, yes. Sorry. My mistake. But I have an excuse. I've been around since about the middle of the last century and spent too many years before the millennium associating the word 'Republican' with the word 'conservative', not Conservatism Inc., conmen, conspiracy theorists, varied and sundry creeps and full-on crazies. That's a lot of c's for a tired old brain like mine to keep track of. And old habits often die hard.
I sort of agree, even if I'd never vote for one. the problem for me at this point is that the crazies have been representing them for so long (and whatever one might think about Reagan--and I loathed him from the get-go--he brought them in, so fuck him and his "blessed memory) that I don't think anybody has any idea what an actual "conservative party" would even look like.
there are some folks I know who'd point to that position now defined as "libertarian," but those guys are even weirder. and Ayn Rand, one of the greatest hypocrites of the last century, doesn't travel well after tenth grade. in the tenth grade, I very uncharitably referred to her "followers" as "the girls with whom nobody wanted to go out," but that might have just been in Forest Hills High School. that last was a not-so-veiled call-out to any other alums out there.
So, apparently a Red wave has not drowned the nation, and that's a good thing.
As to my home state, the election results are welcome news...the executive offices and both chambers of the state house went blue, the 1st time in 40 years that the Republican firewall of the state senate will no longer serve as such. So, MI is a lot less the color of a bruise today than it was yesterday, especially considering that all 3 ballot proposals passed, nullifying an early 20th century law making abortion in the state illegal (held in limbo since the fall of Roe by a court order) and also nullifying the effect of that fall by cementing reproductive rights in the state's constitution; making needed and sensible changes to state officeholder term limits, and finally instituting something in the way of meaningful financial reporting requirements for state office holders.
So, was this a Blue wave in the state? I don't think I'd call it that, though I'm sure a few D's would like to. I think it might better be characterized as a rising tide. And maybe it will be a sign to the state GoP that it's time to throw the crazy ass hats who've helmed and manned that ship of late over the side and find a new skipper and crew, one that knows how to obey the laws of common sense, common decency and perhaps has a modicum of regard for the common good as opposed to just their own. May not happen. Probably won't happen. But then, no one thought this would happen either.
Wave or tide, if you've got a fire burning and spreading along the shores of your democracy and headed for the heart of it, it doesn't really matter how the water gets there to put it out. Or what color it is. That it just gets there at all is far more important. Perhaps the tide that rolled in here yesterday is a reason for at least a bit of optimism as regards that fact.
I think the Rs are going to have to be thumped harder, since they have granite skulls, for the message to get to the destination.
Acknowledged as much with "Probably not." And I'm more than happy to keep on thumpin' on my end. But as you wrote yourself not all that long ago, while you (or I, for that matter) may not agree with or perhaps even like a lot of Rs - even in 'normal times' - we do, in fact, *need* a 'healthy' Republican party, lest the current 'good guys' fall into the same trap of self-interest from only having to answer to themselves. Hence, I really hope they get the message sooner rather than later. After all, 'hoping' doesn't cost me a darned thing. ;-)
We need a conservative party, run by Actual Conservatives.
Well, yes. Sorry. My mistake. But I have an excuse. I've been around since about the middle of the last century and spent too many years before the millennium associating the word 'Republican' with the word 'conservative', not Conservatism Inc., conmen, conspiracy theorists, varied and sundry creeps and full-on crazies. That's a lot of c's for a tired old brain like mine to keep track of. And old habits often die hard.
I sort of agree, even if I'd never vote for one. the problem for me at this point is that the crazies have been representing them for so long (and whatever one might think about Reagan--and I loathed him from the get-go--he brought them in, so fuck him and his "blessed memory) that I don't think anybody has any idea what an actual "conservative party" would even look like.
there are some folks I know who'd point to that position now defined as "libertarian," but those guys are even weirder. and Ayn Rand, one of the greatest hypocrites of the last century, doesn't travel well after tenth grade. in the tenth grade, I very uncharitably referred to her "followers" as "the girls with whom nobody wanted to go out," but that might have just been in Forest Hills High School. that last was a not-so-veiled call-out to any other alums out there.
Mostly Randians are "the boys with whom no one wants to go out."
imagine a laughing emoji.
again, I'm talking FHHS, famous for its cheerleaders. but you're completely correct, as usual.