You'd expect that a town with a population of about two thousand people, a majority of whom are active seniors, would be..."conservative" in the sense of not eager to change anything for the sake of change.
Most of the time, in my town, you'd be right.
Gate City, the town proper, lost a good councilman just before the election.
"I didn't think you liked him? He wasn't one of those bald blue-eyed men you fight against the tendency to dislike, so why didn't you like him, anyway? Because he was a Republican?"
I didn't dislike Mr. Roberts at all. Au contraire! As a widow with black hair and a top-heavy figure, I rate other people's husbands based on how completely they leave me alone. I ignore them. If I'm friendly with married people, it's with the wife not the husband. But I do like and respect other people's husbands when they treat their wives right and have nothing to say to me. I'm disgusted by the way small-town types carry on because "He never shook my hand the way he shook her hand at church!!!" I prefer that other people's husbands find someone else's hand, preferably a man's, to shake. Councilman Roberts rated high. He was loved and will be missed.
I live and vote in the county, so when I went to vote last week, I received a ballot with no town councilmen on it.
Oh, such a ballot! Lots of positions were on it. "Be sure to fill out both sides!" the election judges were telling every single person as people filled out their paper ballots with normal ballpoint pens.
On one side of the ballot, in exactly one slot, there were two names. The one D incumbent was being challenged by an R.
Otherwise, the incumbents, all R's so far as I know, were running unopposed.
No points for guessing that the one R challenging a D for a position in local government won the election--though, for the position in question, party politics don't make much real difference.
This is a town that was painted blue in the 2020 election by one thing. Our D senators sent out letters and e-mails that told everyone, in essence, "I'm trying for all I'm worth to send you money but that mean old President Trump won't let me." Those of us who were paying attention knew that Trump actually did want to send people those second COVID handout checks, but wanted to strip a lot of additional boondoggles out of the bill authorizing the said checks. But a lot of people weren't paying attention, because COVID actually happened around the time the election took place, and there was a lot more interest in who'd had it and how bad it was. Also a lot of people who were paying attention were not Trump fans. There was a third party candidate. That candidate got some votes, not because anyone thought wossname was going to win, but because people wanted to vote against both Trump and Biden. Nevertheless, although there hadn't been a lot of Biden campaign signs actually set up in lawns, a lot of Biden campaign signs were brought in and set up outside the polls on Election Day.
Two years ago we had a lot of people who wanted to vote for Democrats. Where are they now?
As a guess they're looking at what the Party of the Burro has wrought, in the past three years, and hiding themselves from public view in shame.
Some years the D party has campaigned on things like peace, fixing potholes, postponing the implosion of Social Security, and other good things. Some years Ds have actually accomplished good things. But this year? Hello?
Wages have dwindled. Prices have doubled. Businesses have gone under. Censorship is being tolerated. Specifically, censorship of the fact that government nannyism tried to bully people into having vaccines that turned out to be neither safe nor effective.
Nobody has a right to be angry about this--we knew it has always been a strong possibility with new vaccines--but people are, especially if their vaccinated relatives died. I don't, personally, feel especially angry about the possibility that the COVID vaccine that he wanted to show people was safe killed the last man I'm likely to be able to love in any carnal sense of the word. He wasn't young; he'd been ill for a long time. He'd fought off cardiovascular disease by staying physically active, and Lyme Disease had interfered with that; who knows how many non-fatal strokes and heart attacks he'd had. But it does seem odd that, instead of a fatal stroke, he suddenly developed post-vaccine cancer. It does fit a pattern that makes people want to vote in an administration that will overhaul its policy on attempts to allow government to try to manage people's health.
Our national income is down, our national debt is up, yet we're pouring money into a foreign war...and what are Ds doing about it? Spouting inflammatory rhetoric in support of something that is not a nation, or anywhere close to being one, and ought to be stifled by treating them as the psychopathic murderers they are. Do you care about Palestinian children? I do. I want people to stop encouraging the parents of Palestinian children to imagine that what Hamas did can possibly have good results. Encourage them to surrender and beg for mercy. (This web site takes no sides in international disputes, but we're not talking about an international dispute here. We're talking about punishment for common criminals, or, in this case, uncommonly despicable ones.)
Our experiments with small-scale, controllable socialism--old-age and disability pensions, college scholarships, government meddling in patient/doctor relationships--are ruining our budget, damaging our society, aggravating poverty...and what are Ds doing about that? Screaming that everything and everybody is "racist," that's what. Making no positive contribution whatsoever.
I've voted for Ds in the past and I may vote for some in the future. In fact, in our little local election, I voted for the D incumbent; her party politics don't matter and I had no objection to her job performance, nor had I heard if other people did. But in any election where party politics do matter, at the present time there is just no positive reason to vote for the Party of the Current Administration That Is Doing Nothing Right At All.
I never used to think a presidential administration could get much worse than Lyndon Johnson's. The current administration has shown that that thing can be done.
I say the administration because I don't think it's President Biden's fault. I think he's been a party spokesman rather than an independent leader all his life, and it's not really his fault that now, when he looks like a representative of people who are heavily medicated for cardiovascular disease, who tend to be easily confused, his party has been hijacked by extremists whose policies can fairly be called insane.
Robert Kennedy is not exactly a conservative, politically. His whole family have been famous for being liberal, but in a sane way that can fairly be called liberal, as distinct from Loony Left. Kennedy's stated positions on issues definitely aren't Republican but there's a reason why, as an Independent third-party challenger, he's getting a lot of support from conservatives. Because he represents the kind of attention to the actual concerns of the public, together with an awareness of reality, that the D Party used to be, and ought to be, and has currently ceased to be, that's why!
D readers, this web site loves you, but you have got to stop listening to the extremists--R's are really good at ignoring their extremists--and start talking to the people you allow to represent you. We do not need to be a one-party nation but nobody can possibly support the party that is steering this administration.
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