06-22-2017, 02:29 AM
(06-21-2017, 04:14 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Atlanta reminds me of how the Bay Area was 30 years ago. We had very Left urban cores meanwhile our burbs were solid GOP territory. I can't imagine the GOP did well with the true urban core areas (assuming there were any in that district). BTW, the last time a Democrat won it was the predecessor to Gingrich. Over 40 years ago. The fact that a Millennial Democrat came within a hair's breadth of winning is somewhat of an omen.
Normally with this many special elections at least one or two seats should have flipped to Dims and this was one of the more likely ones. None of them did and it took a seven times spending advantage and over sampling the polls like the media did last year to get this close. The Dims still haven't learned anything and my guess is that their latest antics are in fact pissing people off.
I have often said that a fourth turning marks the end of an order and way of looking at things. My suspicion is that when future history books are written they will say that the election of Trump marked the real end of the Progressive Era. It looks like the next saeculum will be marked by the destruction of large entities including nation states.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises