What the 2021 Election Really Means...

Ignore many of the pundits. This election wasn't about the Democrats agenda being too liberal or about the nation's mood. Two things are going on here. The first, the nation is watching Democrats squabble rather than pass legislation and are wondering if Democrats can get things done. Biden's agenda polls well. He was voted in based on that agenda. Democrats need to pass stuff, not argue about it. Manchin and Sinema have to stop worrying so much about the cost of things and worry about the cost to our nation instead. Republicans passed crap that drove the deficit up $2 trillion during good economic times. If Republicans were willing to blow the budget just to enrich themselves, the Democrats have to worry about their own constituents and this country, more than they have to worry about the cost right now. Besides, we know that Manchin is just worried about his own self-interest in his family owned coal mines. For him at least, this isn't about anything but himself. The other issue, unfortunately, is more insidious. It’s about an electorate that is kept ignorant by fake news sites online and fake news streaming from Fox and similar broadcasters. It is amazing that Republicans can get any votes at all, much less win elections, when all they have done since the year 2000 is lied to the people, involve them in wars and then failed those wars, consistently driven up the deficit by trillions, allowed a virus that was already going to be rough, to become an uncontrolled disaster, and then tried to take over the country in a violent insurrection. That these failures, these self-dealing, treasonous, liars, can get any votes at all, shows how their gerrymandering combined with the lies streaming from fake news, has made being reasonable and patriotic Americans into a dying art form.