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Sometimes one’s enemy knows the one’s situation better than one does.
This feels especially true when looking at the GOP’s maniacal drive towards voter suppression and democratic distortion. The GOP understood the sheer power of fundamental demographic changes fundamental shifts in political realignments, better than I, someone with on the left, did.
Not that I denied that it existed, but its trajectory did seem to be declining in the 2016 and 2020 General elections. When looked at over a broader spans of time, 20 or 30, years, the impact of demographic change had only sped up. In the 1990’s, the 2000’s, and 2010’s, the median person in America was slowly but surely getting more liberal in their social views. Now, after the most recent midterm and these special elections today seems to show us a country where though by slim margin, there are reliable coalitions who can demand a more egalitarian society in elections after election and they are taking hold at in more and more States.
In Wisconsin, we saw this slim but durable majority do something that we haven’t seen in a while, change the rules back to something reasonably democratic. They are set to link democratic will to policy, for the first time in a while. In the last election that had reasonably fair elections, 2008, the country had moved to the left, relative to 2004. The election of 2024 and 2026 and so on, will reveal how much the country, especially the middle of the country has moved leftward in terms of popular will since 2008. In Wisconsin at least, and hopefully in other States soon, we may see a tidal wave. There will probably the biggest legislative shift in American history.
Here’s where the enemies come back in. The right knew it better than many on the left did, that the underlying power of the great demographic shift had been quietly moving faster than ever before and an America that has reasonably fair elections, is one that will move policy leftward at perhaps a rate not though possible just a year ago.
This feels especially true when looking at the GOP’s maniacal drive towards voter suppression and democratic distortion. The GOP understood the sheer power of fundamental demographic changes fundamental shifts in political realignments, better than I, someone with on the left, did.
Not that I denied that it existed, but its trajectory did seem to be declining in the 2016 and 2020 General elections. When looked at over a broader spans of time, 20 or 30, years, the impact of demographic change had only sped up. In the 1990’s, the 2000’s, and 2010’s, the median person in America was slowly but surely getting more liberal in their social views. Now, after the most recent midterm and these special elections today seems to show us a country where though by slim margin, there are reliable coalitions who can demand a more egalitarian society in elections after election and they are taking hold at in more and more States.
In Wisconsin, we saw this slim but durable majority do something that we haven’t seen in a while, change the rules back to something reasonably democratic. They are set to link democratic will to policy, for the first time in a while. In the last election that had reasonably fair elections, 2008, the country had moved to the left, relative to 2004. The election of 2024 and 2026 and so on, will reveal how much the country, especially the middle of the country has moved leftward in terms of popular will since 2008. In Wisconsin at least, and hopefully in other States soon, we may see a tidal wave. There will probably the biggest legislative shift in American history.
Here’s where the enemies come back in. The right knew it better than many on the left did, that the underlying power of the great demographic shift had been quietly moving faster than ever before and an America that has reasonably fair elections, is one that will move policy leftward at perhaps a rate not though possible just a year ago.
