The 2022 Midterms are beginning Tuesday November 7th. It has been a long road both physically and allegorically to the upcoming Midterms which is another two year long prelude to the 2024 Presidential Elections. One should remember that besides from the Presidential elections every 4 years, most elections in the United States from the local level to the congressional elections are done by popular vote. Americans will not be pulling their hair out or rolling their eyes wondering when the electorial college is going to finish tallying up the set total of each candidate for both parties Democrats and Republicans and the third party Independents or Libertarians (two completely different parties) or four party candidate ie Greens, Socialists, workers, etc. For the past two years since 2020 elections between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the journalists and media pundits have been trying to wrap their heads around why Trump, Republican party, conversativism and neo conversativisms and populism remains widely popular and fascinating to half of Americans. We are speaking of ordinary Americans. Even with the unsurprising mountains of corruption of the previous Trump administrations and the shocking events of January 6, 2021 and storming of the Capital by armed people ranging from nationalists, self declared defenders of freedom, patriots and concerned citizens, the media pundits and even the geopolitical analysts can not understand how on Earth, Trumpism and the MAGA crowd are still making waves among the people and the two hundred plus candidates on the conversative and Republican side of the elections. MSNBC and CNN talking heads still can't believe that candidates who deny Biden's election might be on their way to winning their respective gubernatorial, congressional and state elected offices.
The pundits are panicking. The Democrats have been screaming for two years that the end of is nigh if Americans don't choose wisely to vote Democratic or vote for any candidate that isn't Republican or conservative. The last year has been a massive Get Out the Vote campaign by the major news networks of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, PBS both on air and online. It's not just about voting Blue no matter who or voting to "save American Democracy." The journalists and pundits have always believed that the United States is somehow immune from political instability, violence and choas that has plagued other countries. For the 100th time, the United States can suffer and has suffered from political instability and choas. Just how Britain or England to be specific wasn't save from the political crisis it is still suffering from as a result of leaving the European Union under Brexit. Four Prime Ministers in four years with the newest PM being Rushi Sunak. But that is a story for another day. Trump's presidency was treated as a political crisis and rightly so as he used executive over reach on several issues and ran the White House as mob boss/Mafia don and an oligarch. And no it's not a joke either.
It goes back to rising inflation costs, still ongoing economic and financial consequences of the COVID lockdown and the deliqute balance of returning to normal vs preparing fro another far ranging pandemic. The US is actually in a slow moving recession now that the Biden government refuses to recognize. The economic downtown is being felt by Americans and only slightly by the wealthy. All of this was a long time coming. On the geopolitical corner, the US is an empire and hegemonic power in decline. The decline started well before Trump possibly during Bush's or Clinton's term. The analysts among them Fareed Zakaria have been warning about a post American world and the end of American super power in 2008 and before. The U.S. became the butt of jokes and ridicule under Trump and was accelerated by him once he embraced Kim Jung Un, Muhammed Bin Salman, and Putin. Although he and Putin were more of friend enemies and not as joined as joined at the hip as the Russiagate promoters like to portray. Midterms are ongoing.
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