As I look around, it brings joy to my heart that not only the democrats will seemingly dominate the senate and congress, but also we'll have a democratic president. Not only a democratic president, but an african american one. As I look around, I also see other things happening....
More musings after the jump...
As I look around, I see the fracturing of the republican party. Internal strife about who they are, and what they stand for. This presidential race has shown for the first time in a long time how the republican party is struggling to find itself. Clashes happening internally with the right, and the moderate center. Infighting between young lions[and lionesses], and old dogs and bitches[yes I used the term correctly] who've held on for far too long, but do not want to step away.
This presidential election, and round of elections for the senate and congress will more than likely put the republican party out of power for a very long time. What will happen is this. Much like the democratic party was forced to re-evaluate and re-image itself after they were knocked out of power in the 1950s and 60s, this is what will happen to the republican party. But something else will happen. The creation of a true 3rd political party. During this re-evaluation, the republican party will discover, that being educated, smart, and coming from humble means is not a bad thing. They will also discover that their base of the uneducated, fear mongering, uninformed, and racist caucasian is slowly but surly being replaced by the educated, informed, optimistic, open to new ideas, new breed of caucasian american who does not see race when they look at a person, and everything in black and white, but rather full 100% in living color. And that courting minorities does not lessen the party, but strengthens it.
This will cause the creation of the 3rd political party due to the rise of moderate/center thinking republicans looking to seperate themselves from the right thinking republicans, as not to be linked to them and their ways.
Trust me people, I can totally see this happening.