Tuesday Takeaways

By Victor Davis Hanson November 10, 2022 

What, if anything, did the midterms tell us about the country – other than underwhelming Republicans could still take the House and Senate?

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, American elections radically changed to mail-in and early voting. They did so in a wild variety of state-by-state ways. Add ranked voting and a required majority margin to the mess and the result is that once cherished Election Day balloting becomes increasingly irrelevant.

Election Night also no longer exists. Returns are not counted for days. It is intolerable for a modern democracy to wait and wait for all sorts of different ballots both cast and counted under radically different and sometimes dubious conditions.

The Democrats – with overwhelming media and money advantages – have mastered these arts of massive and unprecedented early, mail-in, and absentee voting. Old-fashioned Republicans count on riling up their voters to show up on Election Day. But it is far easier to finesse and control the mail-in ballots than to “get out the vote.”

The country is divided in more ways than ever. America’s interior just gets redder and the bicoastal corridors bluer...........Republicans wrongly assumed all voters, red and blue, sensibly cared most about spiking inflation, unaffordable food and fuel, an open border, and a disastrous foreign policy.............. To Read More....

My Take - Here's the real answer.  Suffering is the beginning of wisdom, and it appears America hasn't suffered enough to make their sense of happiness and well being is under attack.  When a society's sense of well being becomes seriously challenged, then things change.  

In Machiavelli's book The Prince he outlined how there are only two groups of people in the world.  The privileged and the masses.  The privileged only want to maintain their privileges, and get more if possible, and the masses only want three hots and a cot, i.e, they want to be able to feed their families and feel secure in their homes and life in general.  In short, society wants "security"!  

Any sense of that is going to change soon, the concern is these misfits will foul things up so bad we may not be able to recover.