@mb @allyn. One of the lessons I learned from coaching my kids’ soccer games was never enter a match overconfident. The underdogs try harder and the overconfident teams get lazy. The GOP is on the attack right now. In my town they are attacking the BLM movement and have succeeded in swaying the local newspaper and then a few days ago their points appeared in an ultra Right op-Ed in the Boston Globe. Their timing was perfect. They waited until school vacation to strike and there has been silence from the progressives. Well at first someone responded with a counter-letter signed by 400 people. But the local paper didn’t print it. I wont remain silent but a good plan is in order.
I often talk to myself when I'm alone (and yes, I do answer...how else can I have a good conversation? ? ). Many times, some of the things that come out of my mouth are related to potential coming events, and some of them surprise even me because they are not things I would have actually thought about or said normally. When I hear/say them, I tend to pay attention because that's often how spirit gives me information since I don't meditate much. The night before last as I was getting ready for bed, I suddenly said (yes, out loud!),
"There will not be a 'blue wave'."
I was rather shocked because that's what pundits and many on here (including myself in other posts) expect - assuming the appropriate work has been done to ensure it, of course - so I opened up and let my mind explore that sentence as I laid down. The impression I get now is that the information is correct: there will not be a "blue wave" in the next election. There will be progress, yes, but it will be slow and steady. While the D's will likely get control of the Senate by a few votes in 2022 - enough to break the R hold on that body - there may be more of a stalemate in the House, with D's losing a few seats and making the margins there a bit too thin for comfort.
In the period between 2022 and 2024, the neo-R's will further demonstrate that they are not fit to lead, so there will be more progress/gains in for the D's in 2024 in both bodies as the House recovers some of its losses and the Senate solidifies the D majority. Over the next three elections, ('24, '26, and '28) I feel like the R's will lose even more ground such that by 2028, they will be relegated to a 1/3 minority status (1/3 of both houses).
While all of that is important and needs our focus and effort, the real fights will be - and need to be - local. At the moment, the R's retain a lot of local/state power and are able to circumvent some of the good things that are happening nationally by their recalcitrance. I would strongly encourage everyone to throw your full support behind any efforts to unseat the R's at the local/state level, whether that be running for office, volunteering for campaigns, or supporting those campaigns financially or in any other way you can as much as possible.
Maybe I should have put this under random predictions, but it seemed to fit better here for some reason. ?
Oh no Giulianni had his law license suspended in Washington DC now due to him having it suspended in NY
@tgraf66, I suggest that you put your post in both places. Really solid and insightful.
While the D's will likely get control of the Senate by a few votes in 2022 - enough to break the R hold on that body - there may be more of a stalemate in the House, with D's losing a few seats and making the margins there a bit too thin for comfort.
This is what I've seen; a net gain of a few seats in the Senate. For awhile I had been seeing single digit gains in the House. Last night, coincidentally, while I was drifting in and out of the hypnagogic states of sleep, I envisioned that in 2022, the Dems would lose a few House seats but maintain majority control.
Of course, we're still more than a year out from November 2022, and the timelines are probably a bit in flux.
I'm not sure what forum this post should be categorized under, but this seems like an appropriate place.
One personal manifestation of this collective Herxheimer reaction we're going through is that I've had compromised balance since the beginning of the year. There's no medical mystery behind what's happening to me, and I know the issue will eventually resolve itself. But for now, I'm at an increased risk of falling, and I have fallen quite a few times. Meanwhile, I've been thinking a lot about structural failure and whether the buildings we occupy are also at risk of falling. The New York Time's exposé about issues at the luxury condo/pencil tower 432 Park Avenue seemed to kick all of this off. When I read that article, I saw a long trail of rubble belonging to 432 Park sprawled across Central Park.
So this could come off as cold, but I wasn't surprised when I heard that a high-rise condo in the Miami area collapsed. In fact, I had been thinking about South Florida and the California Bay Area as places that are especially prone to structural failure. Even if architects and engineers are truthful when they say their building designs have been stress tested to withstand extremely high winds or powerful earthquakes, I feel like the real world will start throwing up unforeseen scenarios that undermine even our most cutting-edge creations. This goes back to a recent conversation here in the forum about how climate change effects the planet's geomorphology and can cause the ground to flex in unforeseen ways. The investigation into the Champlain Towers South collapse has barely begun, but I bet one factor in the suite of cascading failures in this tragedy will be the fact that the underlying barrier island is moving landward, thus causing the sediment under Surfside to shift and form caverns.
Architecture reflects the values of a civilization, so a wave of structural failures in the US and abroad would be a strong indicator that our societal values are no longer serving us.
@allyn Good Morning Allyn and hello Jeanne, I made it. Regarding your thought on selling water for a penny. I have a suggestion which may or may not be of use. I am from Australia, when we have an election the polling booths are usually at schools or church halls and it has become a tradition to use Election Day as fund raising by the schools etc. for items they need. So we have sausage sizzles, cake stall, plants, books, drinks etc for sale. There is even a website removed link which lists the polling booths and what they are selling.
I dont know if you would need to register the stalls over there but could something along those lines be set up by different groups along the routes or near the polling stations so they are fund raising for local groups (but at really low prices) nothing to do with helping the long line of voters Officer, its for charity. If they need to be registered you would then have the legal right to do it. It may not be at all feasible but I would assume as a lawyer you might be able to find out? Then you need the groups to set up.
Kind Regards