Post midterm elections 2026, there is no one out there without something to say about Democrats taking over the US House of Representatives, the US Senate, and many state and local offices. Here is one more piece on the subject, saying, what’s new?
Nothing new. It’s nature.
Nature self corrects as best it can. Healthy animal ecosystems depend on the right balance of predators and prey. When stock prices veer too far from earnings, bubbles burst. When leaders lose track of their constituents, they lose elections.
And those in charge, Republicans time, lost, as nature dictated.
When folks struggle to pay rent, keep up with the mortgage, put food on the table, and fill their gas tanks, they start souring.
When people are asked for their papers when all they are doing is picking up their kids from school, they are not happy about it.
When it is difficult to find good schools and affordable child care, parents start asking why the US is talking abut Israel or Iran instead of teachers and caregivers.
When households and farmers experience droughts and high energy costs while their leaders approve hyperscale data centers, they rebel.
Oh, and when AI presumes to replace what it sees as mere sub-elite peons, yes, there is backlash.
But nature’s self correction needs to keep correcting.
A lot of folks in office who ignored nature’s implacable need for balance are now looking for a job. Hopefully, the ones spared and the ones coming in learned some lessons.
Hopefully they will all work to correct actions that generated the list of ills.
Will the new guard in Congress remember that our Founders specifically appointed Congress as keeper of the purse? This means, Congress is responsible for matching the nation’s expenditures to revenues, for producing balanced budgets, and for keeping borrowing to the minimum. No such thing has happened since 2001. Yet, cutting the current unbridled spending that is happening without a commensurate increase in general productivity would be the key inflation-lowering tool. Low inflation would allow us to do so much more with out money!
Will the new guard in Congress remember that our Founders specifically appointed Congress as deciders of war and peace? Will they even care that the Founders meant that the President as Commander in Chief could only put our military in harm’s way after a declaration of war by Congress? Well, Congress has not remembered or cared since WWII. So, when people struggle to buy gas and groceries made expensive because of an undeclared war, they indeed should remember and vote accordingly.
Will the new guard in Congress choose responsible policy making, or distracting impeachments? Fixing productivity, inflation, healthcare, welfare, immigration, unaffordable housing and higher education, crime, drug abuse, and porous borders is hard work. It is much easier to hold endless inquiries.
Nature’s balance does not ensure landscapes.
Often, unattended nature becomes “an unweeded garden that grows to seed,” as Hamlet would say. In the politics our Founders designed, voters are the sole keepers of our nation’s political garden. Ignorance, duplicity, laziness, overspending, pandering, disorder, extremism are all weeds voters are responsible for uprooting and placing in the discard heap.
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