Or will the GOP continue the Insanity?
I think us Minnesotans made it pretty clear that we do not want conspiracy loving fear mongers representing us in our government. And though I dread that the MN DEMs may think they have some kind of mandate, I hope they remember that moderates gave them this win and that we do not want "progressive" craziness either. I would hate to feel a need to vote for the conspiracy loving crazies in 2 years... :-O
Hopefully the conservative voters finally agree to give Trump the boot. I mean if you want to hero worship a slightly crazy conservative, pick DeSantis... Though I will continue to wish for a GOP electorate that supports ethical sane people like Romney, Liz Cheney, etc.
Hopefully Trump will be in jail at some point and we won't hear much from him. :-)
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The point of electing Democrats is to get things done. If people didn't want things to be done, they would have voted Republican. Since no matter what happens, it is likely the Democrats will lose the house in 2024 so the next meaningful state election will be four years from now. Who knows what the issues will be then?
--Hiram
What I really got a kick out of from the last election were candidates who insisted that this or that issue was not on the ballot. For one thing, I immediately had this image of Lincoln running around the country telling people holding our fellow human beings in bondage shouldn't be something you think about in this election, because slavery isn't on the ballot.
Of course, issues are on the ballot. When dealing with legislative elections, they are the only things that matter since legislators themselves are interchangeable. But also the presumption of politicians who try to tell voters what the issues are is amazing. Candidates for office don't get to determine on what basis people vote. Votes belong to the people who cast them, and they get to decide what's important. By the way, it is an unfortunate feature of democracy that some important things aren't and possibly never will be important to voters. Democratic governments find it hard to address those issues.
==Hiram
Both parties seem to foolishly believe that they have some mandate, even when nearly half the voters voted against them.
I assume that the DEMs will foolishly over reach which will ensure they are tossed out of power in 2024.
It is just the way our pendulum system works.
And for the record, I voted for DEMs because the GOP candidates were NUTS...
I certainly do not support Progressive Socialistic policies.
Anyone who is elected has a mandate. Even Trump, who lost the popular vote, arguably had a mandate.
We have a two party system. One party believes in doing something, the other party believes in doing nothing. If you argue that the party who believes in doing things shouldn't do anything, what is the point of that party? These days when it is virtually impossible to get anything done, the party that believes in doing nothing mostly wins by default. By adopting some mandatist theory of inaction, should they effectively win all the time?
--Hiram
Two years from now, Republicans are going to campaign on the notion that extremist DFL liberals overreached and exceeded their mandate. I make this prediction confidently and without any knowledge at all of what the future might bring. I know Republicans will say these things because that's what their focus groups tell them to say. So do their allies in the media who find that they are able to sell more laundry soap when Republicans say those things. And who knows, what Republicans will say in two years may by some chance turn out to be true. Not even Republicans can be wrong all the time.
==Hiram
Running a country and significantly changing a country are very different things.
Progressives and MAGA GOPERS are free to over reach at their own hazard...
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