After The Dust Settles
So the Congressional races are effectively over. The House and the Senate have been captured by the Democrats, and the days of Republican rubber-stamping in Washington ended. But what will it all mean after the celebration, once the serious work of government begins again, with a new legislature in place?
Hopefully, it will not mean business as usual. Hopefully the new legislators will not be blinded by the corporate game of big money now at the risk of the loss of long-term prosperity. America is too great of a country to be bought and sold on the stock exchange, too great an entity to be controlled by bankers, insurance companies, and war profiteers.
I have my doubts about the success of this new revolution, because of the quick failure of the well-intentioned Republican Revolution of 1994. But it had to be done; the GOP had gotten too far out of control. Until these two parties can learn to work together, or better, learn that third parties are healthy for a country, we run the risk of having to go through this type of thing over and over.
Let us hope this is not the case; let us hope that Washington has finally learned a history lesson. But given that greed and lust for power have never yet ceased to course through the veins of those who would be King (or Queen), let us also be prepared for the worst case–and be ready for another showdown in a few years.
