With midterm elections out of the way and both parties claiming a victory of sorts, time for a look at what really happened. So what did happen?
Nothing.
The results are exactly what they are supposed to be for the preservation of the system. With a House controlled by Democrats and Republicans strengthening their hold on the Senate, things are pretty much at a stalemate. For the next two years, we’re guaranteed spectacular fights and wars of words, enough to keep us busy while the business of politics happens, as usual, behind the scenes.
To be honest, during his first two years in office President Trump hasn’t accomplished much on the international scene - since I’m not living in the US this is the only part I’m interested in. Now that his power is somewhat limited by losing control of the House, he can go on doing nothing much, claiming it’s the Democrats fault. As for the Democrats, we can expect lots of fiery rhetoric, but not much action, as they can blame the Republicans controlling the Senate. Right below election results, CNN has an article mentioning impeachment - not easy to push through, but good enough to keep the Democrat supporters foaming at the mouth for months. Or pushing for the disclosure of Trump’s tax returns - another good rallying point…
Had the Republicans won both houses, Trump would've been hard pressed to show some results. Besides the economy and there are no guarantees the trend will keep up. Remember the talks regarding a looming economic crash!?
And the fighting is only going to get tougher as we get near the next presidential elections.
Democrats will do anything to weaken Trump’s position, especially as for the time being they do not have an important enough leader to try to win the White House. I understand how things work and I know the people behind the scenes trust the Clintons, but seriously Hillary running again would be beyond lame…
See what I’m doing here? I started this post with the clear intention of pointing out how irrelevant the elections were, yet I was immediately drawn in. We all do that, we like X, but hate Y, we bet we’re smart and can see where things are going and what would be best for the US and the rest of the world…. but that’s only in our minds! The only changes we’ll see are purely cosmetic, the system doesn’t change.
For the military-industrial system it’s business as usual! Even the guy who won the elections by promising to put America first dutifully signed the papers that once again increased the Pentagon’s budget! He will do it next year as well, but most people will be busy discussing impeachment, Russia-gate, primaries… whatever…
Smoke and mirrors, as always!