Right there with you. I have nothing left but contempt, disgust and loathing.
I hope the reporting about Merrick Garland being too timid and concerned about appearances to prosecute is wrong, because if the tables were turned, there would be a string of Democratic heads on pikes ten miles long by now. Who cares if it looks partisan. Seriously? It IS partisan. One party tried to violently overthrow our democracy.
If nothing is done, we will, in short order, be an iron-clad authoritarian nation.
@ana please note it’s a longer term “zen” - I haven’t had time to look at the immediate - but ignoring the news for a little bit sounds like a solid plan for most of us if we can swing it!
Oh yes, "longer term" is what I am thinking (or fantasizing) is the important stuff. The political posturing and fallout is best described in the Shakespearian fashion, as "a tale told" (or in this case, played out) "by an idiot" (or idiots), "full of sound and fury signifying nothing". That line keeps coming to mind.
@dannyboy Thank you for your encouragement. I really appreciate it and I’m so glad to hear that your family is doing well again. You know what? I also feel zen about 2022 elections. I feel very calm. Oddly enough, your comments made me think of something else: how does it feel to have a premonition about something really bad in the future? For me, those types of premonitions are filled with foreboding, fear and heaviness. I don’t feel any forebodings about 2022. Nada.
You’re right, we have to keep the 2021 elections in perspective and tune out the endless cable news drama. I’ve been revisiting the Messages to Humanity that Jeanne posted recently.
These were messages from spirit and they are all encouraging and uplifting. I think we received those messages for a reason, to keep us going through all the turmoil and drama.
Agree. The media is largely responsible for the installment of Twitler and Hillary Clinton's loss.
Like I said before, I am seeing an alarming number of articles from extreme right-wing sites show up regularly on MSM sites. Articles from Washington Examiner, for example.
Prime example of the right-wing spin of the media- the VA election was a blowout, and Dems should be panicking and hand-wringing, but the NJ election was "narrow" and a "narrow victory."
Who's pro-rethug? Not them.
You wrote that "people want a polished version of T's opportunistic politics." How will democracy survive that?
I think the question is "what IS a polished version of T's opportunistic policies?" - because it's not Youngkin. And how does someone polish it without giving up the endgame?
@dannyboy At the risk of being perhaps a bit too vulgar, there's an old saying: "You can't polish a turd." ?
@polarberry The part of me that believes in the power of a free press as the fourth estate is in constant struggle with the part of me that wants CNN, FOX, MSNBC and all the others to be cut from the power grid never to broadcast again.
Journalists today are not Woodward and Bernstein. Hell, in the 2020s even Woodward sits on dark secrets in advance of his book publication to sell more copies.
The Virginia election wasn't as close as the New Jersey election, but the top Democrats still really only lost by a few percentage points to the Republican candidates. It wasn't the utter defeat that Right-wing media or even the mainstream media make it out to be. Overall, it shows the electorate is still divided almost 50-50 by party lines.
While the Democrats could have done better and will certainly try to analyze what went wrong, we still have the RepubliCONS out there sparking fear, division, and culture wars. Democrats need to find an effective strategy to counter that just as much as putting the blame on ourselves.
Attached is an interesting, short analysis by Rachel Maddow on Tuesday’s governors races. Both Virginia and New Jersey are the only two states that hold their gubernatorial races the year following the presidential election. Rachel illustrated that for the past 30 years, the first year a president is elected his party loses the governorships in both Virginia and New Jersey. This year, however, that trend changed, because Murphy won in NJ.