“These are two truly
different universes”, writes
David Wasserman in The
New York Times. (1) He
was referring to the electoral races in the Senate and the House
which threaten to further bifurcate an already deeply divided nation.
The
constitution has always favored the conservative. It is, as Keith
Olbermann, has pointed out, primarily a property document. But it is
more than that. The Senate, in which each state is allotted two
senators, regardless of population is structured in such a way as to
favor the rural, conservative and, yes, the white vote. While Rhode
Island with its two senators normally joins the more urbane states
along the Eastern Seaboard, states like the Dakotas (both North and
South) have between them twice the representation in the Senate as
New York or California. So severe has this misallocation of
political power become that, as pointed out by Wasserman, “a
majority of the Senate now represents just 18 percent of the nation's
population.” (2)
The
2018 Midterms threaten to further divide this nation by delivering
the House of Representatives, much more in tune with the nation to
the Democrats while leaving the Senate in the irresponsible hands of
the party of Disgustus. In the Senate the numbers are daunting. The
Democrats must defend 26 seats including 5 that voted for tRUMP in
2016 by 19 percentage points or more. The Rescumlickans need only
defend 9 seats. To just hold their position the Democrats must hold
on to seats in Indiana, Montana, Missouri and West Virginia. It is
conceivable that the Democrats could emerge from the November
elections with fewer members of the Senate than they have now.
But
in the House of Representatives a much different picture presents
itself with the Democrats needing to 'flip' 23 seats to take the
majority. This, despite the Rescumlican gerrymandering, appears more
than plausible with the Rescumlickans defending 25 districts that
Hillary Clinton carried two years ago and many, many more in play.
What
is likely to emerge is a two-fold whammy to any move toward civilized
politics. First, we are likely to be presented with a Democratic
House which will immediately begin serious
investigations into the perfidy and corruption of this
administration; and a House that will pass bills to restore health
care, raise the minimum wage, roll back changes to environmental,
banking and auto emission regulations and a Senate that will respond
to none of this. Gridlock will be ensured.
Secondly,
we will be presented with an even more toxic political environment as
mounting pressures for the impeachment and prosecution of Caesar
Disgustus and his cabal prevail.
Lastly,
many of the so called 'moderates'--always a dicey term in this day
and age—will have left the Congress. Gone will be Jeff Flake and
Bob Corker. Silenced forever now is John McCain. One can reach
across the isle but a responding hand will, in all likelihood, be
nowhere to be found.
Disgustus
is fond of playing the victim. Of whining and crying that the system
is always 'rigged' against him. It is another of his boldfaced lies.
The system produced Caesar Disgustus who, after all, lost
the popular vote. It
is the system—in this case the Senate, structured as it is to favor
the rural, the conservative, the white America, that cannot prevent
him from being impeached but will not, in the event, convict and
remove him. For it does not represent this country.
“An'
Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach
and Imprison.
_____________________
(1), Wasserman,
David. “The Two Midterm Elections” The New York Times.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018. Page A21
(2). Ibid.
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