RED WAVE becomes a Slight Swell - Here's Why

I get premonitions from time-to-time. They’re always strong and they are never wrong. In other words, I don’t brand “hoping” and “I think this, or that…” as “premonitions.” When a premonition comes, it is strong and unmistakable; it always proves out. I will say they are rare, and occasioned. I could use them more often - I don’t like bumping my head. But, I won’t belabor their frequency or nature (here).

I was always skeptical of a strong “Red Wave.” I can call that a premonition - I just didn’t feel a big wave was coming, and I knew disappointment was in store. I warned others as empirical proof for those involved. I felt these things partly because of my feelings of premonition, but also because the American populace is increasingly ignorant, partly because of our indoctrinating public education system, partly because of our Pravda-like Dem party organ of a mainstream media (MSM), and just generally due to the increasingly anemic critical thinking capacity of the general public. No need to say sorry: It’s true.

But in examining things, there are a few other really glaring reasons why manifestation of a true Red Wave was hindered.

Imagine if you will that the Supreme Court had not reversed Roe vs. Wade when they did; that they had never even mentioned it. A main Dem talking-point about “losing choice,” “losing Democracy,” “the Republicans want to ban abortion coast-to-coast,” etc. would have been anematized (made anemic; lacking in vitality). Actually, it would likely never have occupied airwaves and thoughts - at least to the degree it did - and would not have contributed whatever influencing on voting it had (likely enough) in tamping down a true Red Wave.

Why did the Supreme Court address Roe when it did (prior to the mid-terms)? I remember my stomach turning slightly when the draft document leaked. I thought, “What the hell?! Why are they handing a hammer to Dems to influence both wavering Dems and Independents??” After all, overturning Roe (and I understand the legal and Constitutional merits, motivations, and the moral bell-ringing jubilation this has with “Christian Conservatives” and other “right-to-lifers”), it does nothing to thwart a woman’s “right to choose,” or to “kill her baby” (the extremes of the equation). States will set their own agendas, decisions, and landscapes vis-à-vis abortion. The SC has not saved a single life, in my mind (Constitutional corrections aside, for the moment). Women in States that either will, or do, ban abortion merely must travel… and… agencies have been set up to assist with that travel and associated costs. The SC could have taken on Roe after the mid-terms. Why, after decades, did consideration of Roe suddenly pop up out of nowhere when it did?

(Full disclosure: I have no objection to first-trimester abortion. I find mid-term abortion objectionable, and am flat-out against third trimester abortion. I may as well mention that “partial birth” abortion (an oxymoron) is akin to “doctoring” in ethical comportment with the worst of Nazi doctors. Maybe even something more horrific… something along the lines of a Fauci).

Whether the Supreme Court is “in on” some conspiracy of political machinations to keep Congress a mere teeter-totter of ineffectiveness (on border security, cleanup of the FBI, DOJ, public funding of corrupt institutions like PBS, so much other stuff) is difficult to measure. Let me put that aside.

But maybe the most confounding thing: Lindsay Graham, whom I cannot stand, intro’d a bill to ban abortions nationally (after 15 weeks). WTF? Lindsey Graham Introduces National Abortion Ban—Here’s What It Would Do. I’ll tell you what it would do (and not do). It would give the same voters reasons to vote for Dems - enough, possibly alone, to tip things away from a Red Tsunami. And what it would not do? Not make a goddamn difference being that the bill would not, will not, pass. It won’t save a singular clump of cells, fetus, or baby.

Was/is Graham a saboteur? Whether by-design or through sheer idiocy, he is as good as.

The Republicans constantly play checkers while the Dems play chess. It pains me to say that. But politically speaking, the aforementioned is painfully true… unless…

The whole scheme is exactly that: a scheme. To maintain an appearance of fair and honest elections, while the politicians machinate behind doors, clinking glasses, while putting on mere theater in the public sphere. There are those who run for the right reasons, who are sincere and who speak straight and who try to do the right sorts of things in comportment with the Constitution, in representing us - the boss - and in, just generally, staying off our backs - handling the big things like (legitimate) defense, borders, and interstate roadways - you know, that stuff on behalf of the aggregation of States that any State alone cannot do. DeSantis and Lake come readily to mind.

Most are “elites” juggling issues and hiding balls in maintaining power. McConnell, McCarthy, Pelosi, Schumer… you know the others.

It’ll be time for chess and junkyard dogs at some point in rescuing this country. Biden says he won’t change anything after these midterms. Why would he? So, we’ll have ongoing crime, border incursion (note I didn’t say “incursions” - it’s one big, ongoing, constant, incursion-in-motion - think about that), outgoing billions on “climate change,” Ukraine war support (we gotta protect their sovereignty as ours is destroyed - excuse me, has already been destroyed), rampant inflation, bans on domestic drilling/fracking…), and the ever-more softening of America for ultimate plug-in to the New World Order (the uni-Government).

I used to think it a preposterous consideration that this Biden would run for a second term. I figured his ongoing decline would preclude it - not only that, but even if he’s in a mental-capacity-holding-pattern, he’s too ridiculous to be taken seriously for 2024. Now, after Fetterman’s victory, I’m not sure of anything. The American people’s ignorance, coupled with enough cheating, could remain Biden in the White House through Jan. 2028.

Well, I really don’t think so. But… given the ever-increasing lunacy of the times… anything is possible (and not in a good way).

Stay safe.

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I am a U.S. Army veteran (HQ, 500th Military Intelligence Brigade [Japan]; 1st Personnel Command [1st PERSCOM, Europe]; Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans [ODCSOPS, Pentagon], more) and a retired Fortune500 I.T. executive (Young & Rubicam, Inc., DC-NY; Burson-Marsteller, LLC, DC-NY, more) as well as employment at major non-profits (Nat’l. Food Processors Assoc., N. VA [now GMA]; Water Environment Federation, N. VA, more); as well as Top Secret contract work for clients. I have passed four FBI background checks, the most recent in June of 2022. I am also the author of the novel THE GRIM GRIND OF LIFE:  A PI’s strange bounces through a surfeit of eateries, juke joints, and dark doorways.  Prior, I authored the MBA-text I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium (UofW, UofMD, more than a dozen others). The latter book’s last chapter discusses energy and U.S. grid vulnerabilities, and remains a leading-voice in those realms. Books and expanded bio are available on Amazon.