As an Independent voter (though I do lean left. I am educated after all. 😝), the elections this week have given me hope. Yes, Republicans won and Democrats lost, but Republican IDEAS lost- big time. In nearly every instance that those ideas went up for a vote on the ballot, they were overwhelmingly rejected by voters: marijuana is now legalized in two more states states and D.C., the minimum wage was increased in four red states, Colorado rejected a personhood amendment, Washington State voters instituted gun control measures where the Federal government failed! (And polling shows that if marriage equality were put to a vote today, it would be overwhelmingly approved, on the ballot.) While conservative candidates are becoming more charismatic, conservative ideals, when put individually before voters, are overwhelmingly being rejected. The market is at record highs (fact); unemployment is the lowest its been since the economy crashed (fact); 10,000,000 more people have health insurance, which has driven costs down for everyone else and you people can no longer be dropped by insurance when you get sick or reach your limit (fact); and the deficit in our budget is lower than it was during the golden Reagan years (fact). Trickle-down economics have been proven not to work (fact), and Democrats have done an INCREDIBLE job with the economy, in spite of being on the brink of an economic collapse. Theyre just shitty at pointing it out. So while conservatives took quasi-control of the government this week, their ideas are dying. And as their ideas are dying, the other historical thing that happens after an election like this is that in two years it will swing back the other way. So yeah. Hope. And change.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 19:40:19 +0000
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