Commentary: We get an almost sane New Mexico. Dems took back the House and added Senate seats. Thank you Sen. Bill Soules. Also, thank you to Joanne Ferrary, Rudy Martinez, Angelica Rubio, Nathan Small and Bill McCamley in the House; and Jeff Steinborn in the Senate.
National Democrats lost those they’d already abandoned. Lower-income whites turned Republicans; Republican Party women returned home. The DNC went all out with pipelines and corporate rule, tempered with some social justice. They had forgotten many Americans — who revolted. A steady-state economy, governmental growth, apparent shrinking incomes over time and growing corporatism was rejected.
We’ll get predatory corporatism, pipelines, new coal, loss of women’s freedom of choice and billionaire tax relief. The Supreme Court, clean energy and climate change, foreign policy and health care may be early losers. This is better?
There are voter suppression questions in Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina and Wisconsin, not to mention at the New Mexico and DNC conventions. I’ll leave that to election historians.
Republican propaganda overwhelmed anything Hillary Clinton said; she tried saying little except belated responses. National Democrats and many followers did not listen to or understand the people. Retaining position and power — not the people — were overriding.
Now we people are in danger of losing over 60 years of progress toward equality for all. Donald Trump won the Electoral College. HRC won the irrelevant popular vote under current law. The people lost; how will Republicans control their predators and haters?
Four rough years are coming. We must protect our Constitution and reconstruct the Democratic Party. The two corporate-owned parties are not working-people friendly — outside of mostly hype.
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.” (Plato)