What America Voted For Last Night
What America Voted For Last Night
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On the political front, the Republican party has died as a national entity. The ‘Powers That Be’ there helped select and push the most ‘moderate’ two candidates ever and failed utterly. Indeed, they have not elected a president since Nixon (The Bushes and Reagan brought their own teams from their states with them and were initially fought by these ‘Powers That Be’). Much discussion of third parties will now start; impossible without an infusion of hundreds of millions to build a 50-state infrastructure (and the super-rich will not do that; no personal glory in the mundane building of a political architecture for others.)
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Michael Openshaw
America’s voice was quite clear last night. It voted, by a significant margin, for the Republicans to retain strong control of the House, for Democrats to have stronger control of the Senate, and to re-elect the man proven to have no inclination to work with either in such an environment. By voting the way they did, the American people did not vote to re-install the dream of 2008, but voted for the gridlock nightmare of 2010. They voted to support governance without budget, spending without revenue, and executive by diktat, not by the will of the people nor constitutional constraint. They did NOT vote for Hope and Change; otherwise they would have booted the GOP for the House. They voted the next generations into the fiscal graveyard.
Trillion dollar deficits will continue and grow worse, since they voted to control taxes, but not to rein in spending. The flight of capital from the U.S. will accelerate, as will global efforts to break dependence on the dollar as the international currency. True unemployment (u-6) will continue at it’s high rate although the popular number will fall, as more people give up looking and drop the labor participation rate further into unsustainability. What jobs that will be available will be lower pay, less technical, and- for the most part- part-time (to avoid the Obamacare penalties AND having to provide massively expensive health insurance). QE 3 will continue, with the U.S. government using that currency to become pretty much the sole purchase of our own debt (no one else is interested or has the funds). Inflation will accelerate substantially- and will be global, since the EU is also generating worthless paper.
On the political front, the Republican party has died as a national entity. The ‘Powers That Be’ there helped select and push the most ‘moderate’ two candidates ever and failed utterly. Indeed, they have not elected a president since Nixon (The Bushes and Reagan brought their own teams from their states with them and were initially fought by these ‘Powers That Be’). Much discussion of third parties will now start; impossible without an infusion of hundreds of millions to build a 50-state infrastructure (and the super-rich will not do that; no personal glory in the mundane building of a political architecture for others.)
As for the Tea Party movement: it will continue; but, at the national level, it will lose its voice until the full financial collapse happens. Only then can it be revived outside of the red states. Only then will enough people turn off the MSM and the latest ‘American Idol’ and start to listen to a message of fiscal sanity. Right now, the nightmare result of decades of living beyond your means is just beginning the impinge on the dream, still hidden in the fog of perpetual entertainment. It will come out in full force soon, not to be ignored. And what happens then will be very ugly- and hopefully fall far more on the older generation- who are most responsible for this mess due to our gross political negligence- than the generations that follow. Our nursing home days are slated to be horrific, to say the least; and it is our own fault.
As for me (Michael Openshaw) personally, I’ll be going into full political retirement- much to the relief of many of the professional political class. Unlike many of my Tea party compatriots, I have fought this battle for 50 long years and that’s enough (especially given personal medical issues). Others less war weary will carry on the fight well; whether under the name of North Texas Tea Party or elsewhere doesn’t matter much at the moment; the fight WILL continue. But this old war horse will be limping (literally) off to pasture. I will always cherish my friends from these days and I will still likely be spouting off from time to time, just to stir the pot. But I have come to the end of my personal run.
May God bless America and Texas; both will need it more than ever.
North Texas Tea Party
