2022 midterm polls

[Eric the Green]

(10-19-2022, 04:43 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-19-2022, 12:08 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The latest polls seem to put the Tim Ryan hopes out of reach. Ohio voters are reverting to their usual embrace of tyranny these days. So right now it looks like the Senate will remain status quo, which combined with the House according to the pundits going Republican, almost nothing will be achieved by our government in the next two years, and much may be damaged beyond repair. Very sad, but what can we do. We are at the mercy of the stupidity and callousness of American voters-- and non-voters as you point out. Everything is on the ballot, and the people are voting their lives and freedom away.

And if people blame Biden for their own mistake, as they are already doing right now, then he is in danger of losing in 2024 too.

I don't see Biden runing again. I just don't.  If he's going to pass on round 2, then he needs to say that as soon as the midterms are over.  Who steps up will be the biggest TBD of the 21st century -- at least so far.

Then there's the Senate.  If Ohio is happy picking a Silicon Valley venture capitalist as it's "man of the people", and, worse, Wisconsin sends Space Cadet Johnson back to the Senate, then we're simply in degraded days and the fevor (?) will have to pass on its own.  I might have to revive my 2T Revolution theory again.  If so, I hope to live long enough to see at least the beginning.

Again, don't count out Biden. He should not bow out if the Democrats hope to win; there is no TBD available unless it's Mitch Landrieu, which seems unlikely. If there was a TBD available we'd know it by now. It's too late.

If this 4T fails, which Senate Republicans winning in 2022 in Ohio and Wisconsin makes more likely, then what follows will be a continual worldwide decline and a worldwide 4T lasting at least 4000 years. There will not be any capacity for any 2T revolution or second turning. Institutional change is what we need, and that can only happen in a 4T. The bright side of that pattern is that the real big institutional changes come after the battle is fought out and the progressive side wins at the very end, which in this case means the end of this decade, and not before. The progressive side has never lost an Anglo-American 4T. It is shameful indeed that today's generations are the ones about to lose for the first time. And it will be way, way by far the most catastrophic loss of any 4T anywhere, ever.