Just Stop! [View all]

[NanceGreggs]

Like everyone else, I have a LOT of complaints these days. A LOT of things are pissing me off - but one in particular is putting me over the edge.

I am sick to death of pundits, political analysts, MSM personalities, journalists, and other assorted and sundry spokes-mouths repeating the idea that the Democrats will lose the House and/or the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections.

"It's a given," they say, "because that's the way it's always been. The party that holds the WH always suffers losses in the midterms" - a declaration that invariably follows a litany of statements about how we are living in unprecedented times, where political business-as-usual is no longer "usual".

We have a former "pResident" under investigation for crimes against the US, lawmakers under investigation for trying to overthrow our government, people at the highest levels of the previous administration pleading the 5th - all unprecedented - and yet we are being encouraged to believe that the precedent of Democrats suffering massive losses in November is an inevitability we have to brace ourselves for, because history shows yadda, yadda, yadda.

It amazes me that anyone would cling to the notions of the past as being somehow applicable to today's political climate. The very idea that the old norms still prevail in the face of "the new norms" we are currently facing is as preposterous as saying that we, as voters, can change everything - except the inevitable.

In today's political climate, believing that anything is inevitable is to believe that votes don't count, because "inevitability" is stronger than the voice of the People.

I, for one, say FUCK THAT NOISE. Stop promoting the idea that all is already lost before the first midterm ballot is cast. STOP telling me that my voice will not be heard before I have a chance to raise it.

And STOP telling me that in the upside-down world of up-means-down politics, historical "precedents" still have meaning.

If you're promoting the idea that Democratic midterm losses are to be expected, you are also promoting the idea that they are inevitable. So stop pretending you aren't taking a side - when you obviously already have.