Thanksgiving will be here in a couple of days. Most of us will spend time with friends and/or family feasting together. While we thank our lucky stars for who loves us, where we live, what we have, how much we know, we really need to thank the most important people in America.
A well-deserved thanks goes to my fellow Democrats, Independents, and others who cast their ballots in this election. We voted for women’s rights, gun control, climate action and democracy itself. We ignored the inflation chewing on our wallets. Our democracy continues to work because we voted.
Historically speaking the Trumpublican Party should have a comfortable majority in the House of Representatives and a slim one in the Senate. Let the spurious impeachment hearings and trials begin! Bang that gavel Kevin! I am thankful that did not happen.
Instead, Republicans performed more poorly than the results reveal. They did not ‘win’ a majority in the House. Redistricting favored Republicans with more than enough new districts to ‘take back the House.’ (12 more new districts than the Democrats). Republicans will hold so tiny a majority it will require unanimous Republican support to pass anything. The Senate remains under Democratic control. The MAGAGs (pronounced ‘ma gags’) convinced no one that they were the better choice. For that, I give thanks.
We also owe a big thank you to the January 6th Committee for exposing the ‘stolen election’ myth for what it was – a con to steal an election by claiming it was stolen by the other side. The con included a real-life insurrection! The committee had a hand in causing losses for election denying candidates from coast to coast. I give a special thanks to Liz Cheney for heroic actions beyond the call of duty.
Thanks to the efforts of so many ordinary people our democracy continues...