Well, it wasn't quite the massive blue wave that many people, including me, were hoping for. Republicans still control the Senate. But Democrats took back control of the House of Representatives in today's election. And I'll certainly take that.
Because it means that all programs - health care, environment, immigration, much more - are safe from Republican despoiling. It take both branches of Congress - the House and the Senate - to pass a bill to send to President to sign into law. That's just not going to happen now, not with the destructive, racist, un-American ideas that Trump and all too many Republicans want to see enacted into law in our nation.
America is still in serious danger, with Republicans in control of the Presidency, the Senate, and via that, therefore the U. S. Supreme Court. But we now have one branch of government where rationality and decency can reign.
That's better than where we've been these past two years, and provides real hope for completing the conversion back to sanity in 2020. A victory for democracy - this time in small districts of humanity across the United States. Next time we'll take it all back.
Because it means that all programs - health care, environment, immigration, much more - are safe from Republican despoiling. It take both branches of Congress - the House and the Senate - to pass a bill to send to President to sign into law. That's just not going to happen now, not with the destructive, racist, un-American ideas that Trump and all too many Republicans want to see enacted into law in our nation.
America is still in serious danger, with Republicans in control of the Presidency, the Senate, and via that, therefore the U. S. Supreme Court. But we now have one branch of government where rationality and decency can reign.
That's better than where we've been these past two years, and provides real hope for completing the conversion back to sanity in 2020. A victory for democracy - this time in small districts of humanity across the United States. Next time we'll take it all back.
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